Description: A monocarpic Perennial with an upright, branching habit. In the plant's first year a basal rosette of mid-green, Cordate leaves are formed. Flowering stems hold spiny, silvery leaves that are rounded to ovate in shape. Usually, flowering stems will be produced in the second year, but this may take longer if growing conditions are less than ideal. Many small, powder blue flowers are held in cylindrical flowerheads that are surrounded by a showy collar of silvery-white Bracts. Flowerheads are produced in midsummer on top of branched, silvery-white, upright stems. After the seeds have been produced, the plant will die.

Ellen Wilmott was known to discreetly scatter seeds of this plant (and others) in the gardens of friends, neighbours and even nurseries, which has inspired the common name, 'Miss Willmott's Ghost'.

Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

Synonym - Eryngium 'Miss Wilmott's Ghost'