A few more Androsace:
Androsace chamaejasme, a native alpine - a fragrant little thing, as the common name Rock Jasmine implies, but you have to really hunker down to smell it!
In the garden in bloom and showing its great fall colour:
And in the wild in the Rockies west of here:
Androsace sempervivoides - easy to grow in the rock garden here:
Androsace carnea ssp. brigantiaca:
Androsace carnea 'Alba':
Androsace albana, from seed the previous year:
Androsace septentrionalis in the wild in the Rockies west of here (first 2 photos) - a vastly different plant from the form that makes the rounds in the seed exchanges (last photo):
And la creme de la creme, a monocarpic beauty that is very difficult to make happy (not from my garden, unfortunately, but from the garden of a local expert alpine gardener), Androsace bulleyana:
