Scabiosa atropurpurea is a branching, wiry-stalked, upright annual with entire or serrated, medium green, up to 5 inches long, spoon-shaped basal leaves and pinnatified stem leaves. Summer borne flowers of Blue Cockade are fragrant, solitary, purplish-blue, 2+ inches wide. The […]

This is an Oppositifoliae (a subsection of Porhpyrion, which is one of the 5 saxifrage sections) saxifrage with dense rosettes of fleshy, elliptic, deep green leaves, to 1/4 inch long. After a couple years it produces dark reddish-purple, single, cup-shaped, […]

This is an Oppositifoliae (a subsection of Porhpyrion, which is one of the 5 saxifrage sections) saxifrage with dense rosettes of fleshy, elliptic, deep green leaves, to 1/4 inch long. After a couple years it produces dark reddish-purple to white, […]

This is a ligulatae (one of the 5 Saxifrage categories) saxifrage with a single rosette of linear, lime-encrusted silver leaves, 2 1/2 inches to 4 1/2 inches long. After 3 or 4 years, it produces a large pannicle of up […]

In early summer the species, cochlearis bears 15 to 25 and up to 60 rounded white flowers 1/2 inch with occasionally red or yellow spots. This evergreen has monocarpic rosettes of spoon shaped green leaves with lime edges. The cultivar, […]

S. burseriana blooms in the early spring a single cup shaped white flowers to 1/2 inch across, which open on short red stems. The narrowly lance shaped gray-green leaves are pointed with firm rosettes to 1/2 inch long. The cultivar, […]

This is a Kabschia (a subsection of Porhpyrion, which is one of the 5 saxifrage sections) saxifrage with dense rosettes of lance-shaped, grayish-green to silvery-green leaves, 1/8 to 1/2 inch long. After a couple years it produces brilliant yellow, star-shaped, […]

In early spring the species, aretioides blooms in flat topped cymes of five cup shaped yellow flowers 3/8 to 1/2 inch across. Leaves on this compact grower are oblong, pointed in blue green, 1/4 inch long. Grows best in moderately […]

This is a Kabschia (a subsection of Porhpyrion, which is one of the 5 saxifrage sections) saxifrage with dense rosettes of lance-shaped, glossy, light green leaves, to 1/2 inch long. After a couple years it produces soft yellow, cup-shaped, 3/4 […]

This is a Kabschia (a subsection of Porphyrion, which is one of the 5 saxifrage sections) saxifrage with dense mats or rosettes of linear to oblong, deep green, grayish-green, or lime-encrusted silvery-green leaves, 1/8 to 1/2 inch long. After a […]