Leontopodium Species, Edelweiss

I have had this plant in my garden for many years in Spokane, WA. All four plants that I transplanted from one house to another survived...Read More. They are not in full sun now, but get partial sunlight. They are easy to dry in silica and are durable after dried, and this spring, for the first time, I'm finding tiny new plants around the mothers.
Also, although I have read somewhere that there is only one species, I have two distinctly different plants. On one kind the flowers are more slender and and the outside bracts somewhat more curved than the other.

This plant was able to survive a Zone 4 winter in a pot one year, and I will see if it will survive another one in its precarious positio...Read Moren. I wouldn't be surprised if it could survive a Zone 2 winter (a plant left outside in a pot in winter will endure temperatures equivalent to 2 zones colder than if it were to be planted in the ground).

Very exited about being able to grow this famous plant myself. I started it last year from seed quite easy and now it getting ready to bl...Read Moreoom. Local quys (rabbits) didn't notice it yet so hopefully I'll enjoy the first edelweiss flowers in my life.

Edelweiss has proved to be a hardy perennial here in Seward, Alaska. The silver green foliage and interesting white blooms make it an wel...Read Morecome addition in my rock garden.