Telesonix jamesii

A special plant

From the Rocky Mountains, this high alpine Boykinia relative in the Sax. family has heads of five-petalled, cherry-red flowers, held just above a cushion of leathery, scalloped leaves in early spring. It is long-lived when happy in the rockery or alpine trough, where it prefers lean, gritty soil or scree, in full sun with a cool root run. 15cm

Seed from Scotland turned out to be something else entirely, so two years later a new batch is looking great from Jelitto. It has not flowered for me, so I hope it is correct. I am keen to use this pant in my garden.

Charmaine Delmatier and wiki provided the image on the public domain