• Color tends toward the purple, magenta or mauve, whether light or dark, or both.

• Flowers are produced in sprays.

• It does not grow more than about a meter in height with fairly rigid canes.

• The plant produces copious suckers and soon forms a thicket.

• There is a button eye, and/or the blooms are “quartered,” in the photo at right.

• There is a powerful scent.

Remember, not all these parameters need to be present.

Found Gallicas...

*Desirée Parmentier, Hygiene, Colorado

* denotes a tentative identification