bluish-lilac

The usually bluish-lilac, sometimes pink or white flowers, borne in the axils of the upper leaves in whorls of three or four, form loose terminal spikes or clusters.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

The flowers are a glistening bluish-lilac, erect, and ¾in. across when fully expanded.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

The flowers are pure and delicate with fragile succulent stems - that are not really stems at all but an extension of the flower - and papery bluish-lilac and orange petals.

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The flowers are pure and delicate with fragile succulent stems - that are not really stems at all but an extension of the flower - and papery bluish-lilac and orange petals.

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