Selections for flower color:

* Var. alba has creamy white flowers.
* ‘Catlin’s Giant’ has tall (up to 8 inch long) spikes of blue flowers and bronze-green foliage.
* ‘Pink Beauty’ bears 4 to 5 inch long spikes of deep pink flowers.
* ‘Pink Spire’ is a fine green-leaved cultivar bearing 7-inch long pink flower spikes.
* Var. rosea produces rose flowers.

Selections for leaf color: All have blue to violet flowers.

* ‘Atropurpurea’ has dark bronze-purple leaves, which color best in full sun.
* ‘Bronze Beauty’ is similar but has metallic bronze foliage.
* ‘Burgundy Glow’ has foliage with shades of white, pink, rose, and green. In the fall the older leaves turn a deep bronze and the young leaves have a rosy hue.
* ‘Gaiety’ has bronze purple leaves and lilac flowers.
* ‘Multicolor’ (or ‘Rainbow’) is similar to, but more vigorous than ‘Burgundy Glow’. The foliage colors are deeper.
* ‘Silver Beauty’ has gray-green leaves edged with white.

CULTIVARS OF GENEVA CARPET BUGLEWEED

* var. brockbankii is a smaller form of the species with deep blue flowers.
* Var. rosea has rosy-pink flowers but is otherwise identical to the species.

CULTIVARS OF UPRIGHT BUGLEWEED

* ‘Crispa’ has deep blue flowers and brownish red crinkly leaves with a metallic luster.
* ‘Pink Beauty’ is 4 to 5 inches tall with light pink flowers in May and June.