Erect alpine shrubs to 4 ft.Flowers (mid-spring) are deep purplish blue to rose-lavender or white.A rarely offered, small-leaved species with attractive flowers.Native to open alpine slopes from 10,500 to 14,000 ft. in China (N and NW Yunnan and SW Sichuan).
1977/027F#29260:RBBE(-10?).flowers lavender.
1977/727F#29260:RBG Edinburgh(-10).The Lapponicum species
1983/137A member of subsection Lapponica that is rarely seen in cultivation. This species has gray-green foliage and a dwarf mounded habit. Violet flowers on this selection which is illustrated in the Cox Encyclopedia (page 280).(-15\R2\2)