Plant much wider than tall with small dark leaves with sparse scaly indumentum. Trusses of 5 flowers, white slightly tinged pale green towards the calyx. Buds appear on very young plants, flowers open a pretty shade of violet. Small foliage turns maroon in winter. Habit dense, forming a low mound.
Flowers broadly funnel shaped and densely hairy outside, pale pinkish- purple in colour.
Free flowering with foliage often hidden by comparatively large flowers.