Compact and upright evergreen shrubs with bristly branches. The delicate obovate leaves are bright blue-green and often have bristles on the margins. The widely flaring, funnel bell-shaped flowers (early to mid-summer) are yellow with greenish spots. An unusual but attractive late-blooming species with beautiful foliage. Native only to SE Tibet where it occurs in boggy areas and on alpine slopes from 10,000 to 11,000(?) ft.
1974/111 ‘Doshong La’KW#5829:Glendoick (0\R1\3). Yellow flowers with rose tips and olive-green flecks in this 1972 Award of Merit form.
1976/205RBG(0).This clone has more compact medium growth, lightly glaucous summer foliage and soft tomato-red bands along the light yellow flowers.
1997sd390CC#7557:RSBG(0\R1\3).Beautiful blue-green foliage on these seedlings.Yellow flowers with greenish spots in early to mid-summer.Grown from seed collected wild in SE Tibet by Peter and Ken Cox at 11,800 ft.An unusually attractive species with long soft hairs on the young stems and leaf margins.
