Medium to large, velvety dark violet-purple flowers with a slightly paler bar. Filaments creamy yellow-green; connectives and anthers violet-purple. Fruit-heads persistent. The name commemorates the village in north-east Poland where, on 15 July 1410, during one of the largest Medieval European battles, the Polish-Lithuanian military forces decisively defeated the German-Prussian Teutonic knights.

Group:	Late large-flowered group
Approximate height:  The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.5 - 3.0 metres
Flowering period(s):  Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Jun Jul Aug Sep
USDA zones:  Warning: the zones given here are USDA zones for guidance only. Canadian zones are slightly different!	4 5 6 7 8 9
Pruning:	Hard prune (Group 3)
Raised by:	Szczepan Marczynski
Country of origin:	Poland
Date raised:  r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2004 ni2014
Parentage:  (s) = seed parent	withheld
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 10-12cm Tepals: 6; 5-5.5cm long, 3.5-4cm wide, broadly elliptic, touching (with basal margins of sepals down-turned), with slightly wavy margins, tips acuminate to cuspidate and slightly recurved