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 December
2001
 Iris
unguicularis
November
2001
Hymenoxis
herbacea
October
2001
Pellaea
atropurpurea
 September
2001
Zauschneria
garrettii
August
2001
Platycodon
grandiflorum
'Sentimental
Blue'
July
2001
Callirhoe
involucrata
June
2001
Helianthemum
nummularium
hybrids
May
2001
Viola
pedata 'Bicolor'
April
2001
Anemonella
thalictroides
March
2001
Fritillaria
pudica
February
2001
Castilleja
rupicola
January
2001
Lupinus
lepidus var. lobbii
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Plant
of the Month
September
2001
Zauschneria
garrettii
by Iza Goroff
Zauschneria
garrettii, the Hummingbird Trumpet Flower, is a
member of the Onagraceae, a family it shares with the
evening primroses (Oenothera and related genera), Fireweed,
and the newly popular perennial Gaura. The name
Zauschneria garrettii is what
one finds in nursery catalogs and older botanical
references. However, all of the members of the genus
Zauschneria are now referred to one species in the genus
Epilobium, E. canum.
Zauschneria garrettii is now
properly called Epilobium canum ssp.
garrettii. Of all the former zauschnerias, it is the
only one which has a northern distribution, found in dry
places in and around the Rocky Mountains from northern Texas
into western Wyoming.
Zauschneria
garrettii is a sprawly shrubby perennial, older
plants can spread to 2' (60 cm) wide, and grow to a 1' (30
cm) height. This is a plant for the large, sunny, dry rock
garden. The flower is about an inch (2.5 cm) long. Its
brilliant orange-red flowers are very welcome in September
when few other rock garden plants are in bloom. Leaves are
also about an inch long and about 1/4" (6 mm) wide, clasping
at the stem, narrowly acute at the far end. The leaves vary
from green to grayish green.
Zauschneria garrettii is hardy
to at least USDA zone 4b.
Propagation
is by seeds, division, or cuttings.
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