NW native, our Waldo rock cress has nice rosettes of hairy foliage that mat to a rock, hence the rock cress moniker. Our original collections are from Southern Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains, where it grows in cracks and crevices of rocks, and sometimes scree slopes. The pink flowers are held aloft on 8-10” stems giving it some height during the flowering season.

One of my favorite regions to explore there seems to be another great rock garden plant around every turn of a siskiyou mountain road. The area is rich in mining history, and full of strange and bizarre plants like our Darlingtonia, which you can often find growing in moist seeps and fens right below an outcrop of these rock cress where they are baked and parched in full sun. This is a tough long lived perennial arabis for the rock garden or trough, looking good for it’s arcitectural foliage even out of the flowering season.

Hardy to zone 5.