Listing
of Alpine Plants and how to use::
ROCK PLANTS
FOR ACID SOIL
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(Many of these
require special care. Those marked with *require
strongly acid soil.)
#Do not collect this in the wild or you will
go to jail.
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BOTANICAL NAME
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COMMON NAME
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Achillea moschata
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Musk Yarrow
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Androsace alpina
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Alpine Rock-Jasmine
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Androsace carnea
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Pine Rock-Jasmine
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Anemone blanda
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Greek Anemone
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Anemone quinquefolia
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Wood Anemone
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*Arethusa bulbosa
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Arethusa
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Astilbe simplicifolia
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Star Astilbe
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Chimaphila maculata
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Striped Pipsissewa
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Chimaphila umbellata
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Common Pipsissewa
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*Chiogenes hispidula
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Creeping Snowberry
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Coptis trifolia
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Goldthread
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Dicentra Cucullaria
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Dutchman’s Breeches
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*Epigaea repens
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#Trailing Arbutus
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*Gaultheria procumbens
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Wintergreen
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Gentiana alpina
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Bluets
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Iris verna
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Vernal Iris
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*Linnaea borealis
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Twinflower
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Orchis spectabilis
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Showy Orchid
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Parnassia caroliniana
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Carolina Parnassus
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Parnassia palustris
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Marsh Parnassus
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Potentilla tridentata
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Wineleaf Cinquefoil
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Primula elatior
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Oxlip Primrose
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Pyrola elliptica,
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Shinleaf
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Shortia galacifolia
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Oconee-bells
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Sibboldia procumbens
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Creeping Sibboldia
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Silene pennsylvanica
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Wild Pink
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Soldanella alpina
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Moonwort
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Thalictrum alpinum
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Arctic Meadow Rue
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Thalictrum dioicum
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Early Meadow Rue
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Thalictrum minus
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Low Meadow Rue
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Tiarella cordifolia
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Foamflower
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Trillium nivale
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Dwarf Trillium
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Trillium grandiflorum
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White Trillium
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Trollius chinensis
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Chinese Globeflower
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Trollius laxus
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American Globeflower
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