A charming low growing bedding plant with soft fern like grey green foliage and a profusion of purple to blue flowerheads with a yellow centre.
It blooms through spring and summer - is moderately frost hardy and goes well in rockeries or over dry retaining walls.
Cultivars include:
"Break O' Day" - has purply-pink flowers, finer leaves and a more compact habit.
"City Lights" - has a dense, bun-shaped habit and produces large mauve-blue flowers.
"Lemon Twist" - has lemon yellow blooms with deep yellow centres.(height to .2m)
"Mauve Delight" - has tiny mauve blooms
"Toucan Tango" - has striking deep lavender flowers and a more trailing habit.
'White Delight' - has white blooms