Thank You Daniel , looks like it is hardy , zone 4-8 I will check for them at my local nursery in the spring Jerry
Could it be armería maritima? Seathrift? How tall was it? Were there leaves like chive leaves, roundish, starting at the base & growing to a point or were they more like grass leaves, flat, with one leaf growing off another at the base? If I enlarge your photo, the leaves look more like grass to me. Armería has pink flowers that look a lot like some of the alliums. Little round lollipops. I've grown armería, & it's a nice little plant. Can't stand wet feet though. Needs well drained soil.
@Palustris: ??? I wonder if we are talking about the same plant. I'm talking about armería maritima. The ones I grow have grass-like leaves. Missouri Botanical Garden: "Armeria maritima, commonly called thrift or sea pink, is a compact, low-growing plant which forms a dense, mounded tuft of stiff, linear, grass-like, dark green leaves (to 4" tall). Tufts will spread slowly to 8-12" wide. Tiny, pink to white flowers bloom in mid spring in globular clusters (3/4-1" wide) atop slender, naked stalks rising well above the foliage to 6-10" tall. Sporadic additional flowering may occur throughout the summer. Flower clusters are subtended by purplish, papery bracts."
Jerry, those look very much like my Allium senescens. Mine are a shade lighter purple though. It could be the way the light falls though.
