Description
The shallow saucer-shaped, deep blue flowers are borne on short pedicels and face outwards. The four petals are crisp, pleated, orbicular and broadly overlapping.
The emerging narrow leaves are suffused with a red-purple pigment, but with an additional brownish tinge.
The ascending to spreading mature basal leaves are elliptical, with neat crenate teeth on the margin and with a sub-obtuse tip.
The fruit capsule is ellipsoidal, densely covered with short bristles, merging with a short, squat, broad style, and an almost globular stigma.
This sterile clone flowers mid-season, from mid May to mid June.
Meconopsis ‘Mrs Jebb’ is widely available from specialist nurseries. It is easily propagated by division.