I have not seen anything quite like this. Looking carefully at the plant, one sees that some of the leaves close to the ground appear green. I hope the pansies provide useful scale. Found around a building in downtown Seattle. Thanks in advance for any ID. File should be attached.
Thank you, trying to find other pictures of ornamental kale; the leaves look right, but I do not see other such flowering stalks. Also, the cold endurance certainly matches. I think you are correct, thank you.
There are a few on this Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=ornamental kale#page=6 and here's an example of how they behave, not so red as yours: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cropwithanna/3892134852/
Thank you. I saw the first flickr page, I just never saw anything that looked so bright red, which was a bit confusing. Everything else matches though. Thank you!