Ageratum

 
Height: to 14 inches
Flowers: 1/4 inch wide
Position: Sun to partial shade
Soil: Average soil

They are clump-forming or mounding plants with felted or hairy, roughly oval to heart-shaped leaves with shallowly toothed or serrated edges. Flowerheads are a mass of fine filaments, usually dusky blue, lavender or pink and crowded in terminal clusters.

Best grown in full sun in moist, well-drained soil. Regular deadheading is essential to prolong the flowering.  A good border plant.