Endangered Species

Rare plants kept in cultivation, one garden at a time. Every plant in this collection is nursery-propagated, never wild-collected, and many are species of genuine conservation concern: Southeastern endemics with shrinking wild ranges, and old-world rarities held now by only a handful of growers. To plant one is a small, quiet act of keeping a species in the world.

4 plants in this collection

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№ 001
Conradina verticillata Cumberland rosemary, a low evergreen mat with lavender-pink flowers
Cumberland Rosemary
Conradina verticillataCumberland Rosemary

A small shrub of the Cumberland Plateau, found only on the flood-scoured cobble and sand bars of three river systems in eastern Tennessee and a sliver of Kentucky: the Big South Fork of the Cumberland, the Caney Fork, and the Obed. The rest of the Conradina clan keeps to the sand scrub of Florida and the Gulf Coast of Alabama, sun-baked and semitropical. This species took a different path, north into the cooler uplands, and the cold-hardiness that came with the move is the gift to gardens farther north.

Hardiness
Zones 5–9
Light
Full Sun
Height
6–10 in.
Spread
18–24 in.
Bloom
Purple
Plant type
Shrub
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