Description
A rare species with a unique colouring that sets it aside at once. The lower, fertile flowers are a deep indigo – the colour of a black grape or a damson. These flowers are sharply contrasted with white teeth and these in turn are all set off by a pale blue to turquoise tuft of sterile flowers at the top of the spike.
This is known from only two small populations on Mount Kerkis (1,433 m) on the western side of the eastern Aegean island of Samos whence it was named in 1984. Ours is a nursery propagated stock and presents no problems in cultivation in a sunny, well drained spot with a dry summer rest.
