Broadly upright but compact-growing evergreen shrubs. The leaves have a distinctive spongy to somewhat woolly yellowish to greenish brown indumentum on the undersides. The flowers (mid-spring) are white to rose or rose-purple, often with purple or brownish spots. A free-flowering and relatively easily grown member of this subsection with outstanding foliage. Native to China (SE Tibet, W Yunnan & SW Sichuan) where it occurs on open slopes above tree line from 10,000 to 14,000 ft.
1975/248 (adenophorum) FD:WEB (-5). Flowers rose shaded white in April.
1976/259 F#21409:Windsor (-10\R1\3). White flushed rose flowers with maroon flecks. Choice foliage species for partial shade.
1976/359 Fruit Valley Nursery:WEB (H4).
1979/104 (adenophorum 'Kirsty') R#11471:BH (-5). An award form with white suffused reddish-purple flowers. AM 1976.
1982/141 BRP (-5).
1997sd276 JN#542:RSBG (-10\R1\3). Grown from seed collected wild by Jens Nielsen at 13,125 ft. in the Yulong Shan, Yunnan, China.
