Roundleaf Alumroot Seeds (Heuchera cylindrica)

An excellently bunchy, leafy, long-lived western forb of dry, low fertility soils. 

Roundleaf alumroot lives life on cliffs, rocky outcrops, and talus slopes, across the Inland Northwest and northern Great Basin (roughly from northeastern California northward into Montana and Alberta).

For all its fragile appearances, this is a fantastically drought-tolerant species, one that enjoys cold climates where it sheds aboveground foliage in winter, only to re-emerging with vibrant green, scalloped leaves in spring, even growing from cracks between solid rock where few other wildflowers would be so happy. 

For all of that, this is also a plant that is even happier with some water and nicer soils – growing lavishly and well-behaved in the regular home garden where its attractiveness is on par with any non-native Heuchera species as an ornamental bedding plant.

Roundleaf alumroot is a relatively deer- and rabbit-resistant plant that is adapted to both full sun and dappled shade. Behold its most magical standing display of strongly upright, creamy yellow-white coral bell flowers, actively visited by assemblages of small pollinators. We know very little about all of the fauna associations of this plant, however, it is a likely host plant for caterpillars of several Greya moth species. Excellent for adding interesting, leafy texture to meadows. 

100+ Seeds (0.1 grams)