Selaginella tortipila Southern Twist Geranium from the Japanese mountain cliffs

from the Japanese mountain cliffs

They are the type of long blooming plant that are good foils for the show stoppers that come and go such as lilies that are in bloom for a few weeks

Here at PDN we’ve learned to identify different methods of pollination to aide in our efforts to cross and create seed in the Juniper Level Botanic Garden

orchid-like flowers at the end of each stem

which are nestled just atop the foliage in mid-April (NC)

Selaginella tortipila Southern Twist Geranium from the Japanese mountain cliffs(aka: A6SC 039 Bryodesma tortipilum) Selaginella tortipila 'Southern Twist' is our 2026 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of the very rare (G3 ranked) kinky hair spikemoss. Native only to a small region at the convergence of NC, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia, it is found on high elevation, seasonally moist, granite and sandstone rock outcrops as an epilithic lithophyte. For us, it has thrived in our gravelly, full sun rock garden where it