This medium to slow growing cultivar is a seedling of H. 'Zebra' which was registered by Alex Malloy of New York in 2005. It is a medium size plant about 16 inches high by 37 inches wide. The leaves are medium blue-green (which changes to green later in the season) with a white marginal variegation. Its foliage is broadly ovate and has a glaucous bloom on top seedling . The flowers bloom from June into July.

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