A shorter, stockier and fuller version of thespecies, with fluffy heads of intense rosy mauve flowers, fol-lowed by pleasing seed heads. Provides much welcome colourlate on in the season and good in partnership with yellowdaisies, grasses, and monkshoods. Loved by bees and butter-flies. Hardy. Perennial. Sept-October. 1.6m. H7. 10cm pot.