Alamosa Flowers: San Luis Valley, Colorado


Flower Detail

Potentilla nevadensis

A ground cover with the same beautiful yellow (but smaller) flowers of its shrub relative. It is doing well in fairly dry places but is crawling all over some of my showy thyme in another garden.

 

Potentilla, creeping

Potentilla nevadensis

Type: groundcover   Zone: 3,4,5,6 - ?

Elevation (if known):

Color: yellow   Height: 1 in

Ease of growth: Easy

Bloom Time : Summer

Sun: yes   Part Shade: no   Shade: no

Water Needs: low

Native to:    CO/NM native? no

Deer Resistant: no   Rabbit Resistant : no

Soil : Average

Propagation: Nursery starts and ?

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