Mountain Bluet

Did you know

• Mountain bluet has the most extraordinary blue color in the cottage garden—a deep electric purple-blue that almost no other temperate flower can match.
• The petals look like fireworks—each bloom has slender deeply-cut ray florets that shoot outward from a dark center, creating a 'spider web of color' effect rare in any flower.
• Mountain bluet is the perennial cousin of the annual cornflower—both share the same stunning blue but mountain bluet blooms longer and returns reliably each year.
• It's one of the very first perennials to bloom in late April or early May, often pushing flower buds up through snow patches in alpine gardens.
• Native to the European Alps, Pyrenees, and Carpathians, mountain bluet has naturalized so well in North American gardens that some states now consider it a mildly invasive but harmless escapee.

Color meanings

Uses

• Cottage gardens
• Borders
• Cut flowers
• Pollinator gardens