Love-in-a-mist is an herbaceous annual that grows naturally in the Mediterranean. It is a bushy flowering plant that grows 45 to 60 cm tall. Love-in-a-mist is valued for its feathery foliage (see today’s photograph) that creates misty collars around its blue, white, or pink flowers.
Love-in-a-mist remains attractive after the flowers have faded because the feathery bracts remain around the – now – spiky, inflated seed pods.