Wild Flowers of the National Parks Region 
NATIVE AMSRICAN AL PINES 
Here is a check list of 300 of the plants I regularly collect. 
identical Latin names are found, they refer to these same plants. 
Wherever 
Common names 
(page 12) are frequently local and may apply to different plants in different sec- 
tions of the country. 
If you don't know whet you want, tell me what you like. 
These plants are. scattered over parts of three states: Montana, northern Idaho, and 
northern Wyoming. 
Some will be under snow until late. July. 
' year in abundance and some.are hard to find. 
I know my plants and where they 
Some vary from year to 
' grow and will do my best to please you; but often your order cannot be shipped imme- 
diately or all at one time, 
Order early and amply, I cannot go far for one plant. 
Photographs of many plants of this region may be found in the Government 
bulletins: Plants of Glacier (50¢), Yellowstone (257) and Rocky Mt. (25/) National 
Parks, available from National Park Service, Washington, D. C. 
With few exceptions, I furnish 4 plants at twice the unit price. 
Privilege reserved, please, of su 2stituting when necessary in re- 
You will find @ scree soil of loose, drainage, 
f.o.eb. Missoula. 
tail orders. 
from beneath generally best for alpines, 
terraces. 
At ease! 
ACER GLABRUM, see under shrubs. 
ACONITUM COLUMBIANUM 
‘Monkshood. Usually bluc, somotimes © 
white. Not common here. Collected 
. sometimes as a fall bulb. 
Pale blue. 2-5' pH=6 Summer 
4CONITUM. LUTESCENS 
Monkshood,. Similar, but yollowish 
white. The two are scparated by a 
day's drive. Do you really want one 
of oach, or will both alike do? 
ACTAEA ARGUT.. 
Baneberrye Ruby red or china white, 
showy berrics on identical plants. 
Should be more oxtensivoly -used. 
White. 2-3' pH-6-7 May-June. 
ACT IN ELL mn L at rire 
Caespitose, entire green leaves 
with large yellow flowers on short 
woolly stems. 
“ACTINELLA GRANDIFLORA 
Grand yollow. sunflowers. on 8" woolly 
stems with woolly divided leaves. 
ADENOCAULON BICOLCR 
Pathfinder, Large leavos, groeon 
above, whito bolow. Stickscad, 
skip it. White. 2' pH-7 July 
ADIANTUM PEDATUM 
The popular Maidon hair forn, 12-18" 
Though this is an alphabetical list, 
for your convenicnce, 1 list our other 
forns hore. All forns are to be roc- 
ommended. Choose to suit your need. 
*.THYRIUM FPILIX-FOSMINA 
Lady fern. Large plants, 
Our casicst to grow large forn. 
Like Ptoris, browns with the first 
frost. bight groon. 2-11! pH=G~<7 
ue, vedas anh drainage. And the 
greatest of these is drainage. 
15¢ 
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35¢ 
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257 
20¢ 
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30¢ 
Plant. them: in raised beds, 
Expect some difficulty, but much of interest. 
Go native in your peace time garden. 
’ CHEILANTHES GRACILLIDA 
A rock fern from high on a windy 
hill in Idaho, +6" pH=5+7 
BOTRYCHIUM VIRGINIANUM 
I know where. it is but I don't often 
get there at a season when it can be 
founds 12" pH-5=6 
*CRYPTOGRAM A ACROSTICHDIDES 
Parsley fern, 6-12" pH-6-7 
CRYPTOGRAIMMA DENSA 
This one at present known to me 
only-on one hillside and that not 
always available. 6-12" pH-6-7 
CYSTOPTERIS FRAGILIS | 
Fragile fern. The fern for a mossy 
bank. 4-6" pH=6-7 
DRYOPTERIS SPINULOSA DILATATA 
Spinulosa woods fern. Frost proof 
fronds. l-2' pH-6-7 
DRYOPTERIS FILIX~-!AS 
Male fern, Tali, dark green, more 
streamlined pinnules, but hardly as 
large.as the lady fern, 2-3' pH+6=7 
POLY PODIUM HESPERIUM 
Licorice fern. Plentiful on the 
coast, but rare here and a steep 
climb. 4-6" 
*POLYSTICHUM LCNCHITIS 
Holly fern. As attractive as it is 
rare. 6=l2" pHe7 
POLYSTICHUM MUNITUM 
Christmas fern, 1-2° pH=-6-7 
PTERIS ACUILINA PUB™SCENS - 
Bracken, Can substitute the rhizomes 
for potatoes if I have to. 
3-5' pH-6-7 
TH=LYPTERIS. DRYOPTERIS 
Oak fern. Single leaves along a black 
string-like rhizome. 6-12" pH-6-7 
All plants 
- dry. on top with moisture 
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