Perennials & Biennials

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  • Thalictrum delavayi Yunnan meadow rue Z 4-7

    Purple to lavender flowers of sepals and stamens from July to August. Delicate-looking leaflets smaller than on most other Meadowrues.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

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    Purple to lavender flowers of sepals and stamens from July to August. Delicate-looking leaflets smaller than on most other Meadowrues.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated 94 (2013)

    Size: 30” x 20”
    Care: sun - part shade in moist humusy soil
    Native: Tibet and China
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  This species discovered by and named for Pére Jean Delavay (1838-1895), French missionary to China.  Delavay found about 1500 new species in his three (3) trips to China. He sent his discoveries to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.  In 1880 he contracted bubonic plague while in China, which disabled him the remainder of his life.

  • Thalictrum dioicum Early meadowrue Z 5-9

    Chartreuse blooms in spring

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    Hanging chartreuse blooms dangle from the stems in spring

    Size: 20" x 24"
    Care: shade to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Quebec west to No. Dakota, south to Georgia, Wisconsin native
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly. Deer resistant.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  Cherokee made an infusion of the root to cure nausea and diarrhea.  Iroquois used it to remedy sore eyes and heart palpitations.  The plant also would “make you crazy.”  One of 1st No. American plants sent to Europe – grew in Tradescant the Elder’s South Lambeth nursery in 1634.  Collected again by Rev. John Banister who moved to colonial Virginia in 1678.  A gunman mistakenly shot and killed him while he collected plants.  Scotsman Thomas Drummond collected this on the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.

  • Thalictrum flavum syn. T. glaucum Yellow meadrowrue Z 4-8

    Fluffy, pale yellow clusters in mid-summer atop lacy, blue-gray foliage

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    Fluffy, pale yellow clusters in mid-summer atop lacy, blue-gray foliage

    Size: 4' x 2'
    Care: Sun to part shade in moist or moist well-drained soil
    Native: Europe to Russia
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
    Awards: England’s Royal Horticulture Society Award of Garden Merit.

    The species was identified by Dioscordies in De Materica Medica for medicinal use around 70 A.D. Species Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. This subspecies was probably in gardens before 1900.

  • Thalictrum ichangense Dwarf meadowrue, Chinese meadowrue, in China called “dun ye tang song cao” Z 5-7

    Airy sprays of palest of pink flowers in early summer & sporadically reblooming.  Pretty foliage - flushed with purple and marbled grey, think Begonia leaves.

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    Airy sprays of palest of pink flowers in early summer & sporadically reblooming. Pretty foliage – flushed with purple and marbled grey, think Begonia leaves.

    Size: 6” x 6”
    Care: shade to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: forests and damp rocky ledges in Western China

    Described in literature 1888. Collected for the West by Augustine Henry (1857-1930)  Irishman who went to China as a physician in the Imperial Maritime Customs Service and stayed 20 years hunting the plants of central China. He collected about 5000 new plants.  Used in traditional Chinese medicine.
    The species name ichangense comes from the province of Ichang where Dr. Henry found this.

  • Thalictrum lucidum Shining meadowrue Z 4-8

    In midsummer creamy, fluffy puffs, smelling of roses, atop dark green leaves. Tall, dark & handsome.

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    In midsummer creamy, fluffy puffs, smelling of roses, atop dark green leaves. Tall, dark & handsome.

    Size: 3-6’ x 20”
    Care: sun to part shade, moist to moist well drained soil
    Native: France & Spain
    Awards: Rated as excellent by the Chicago Botanic Garden.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  Lucidum means “bright, shining.”  This species collected before 1736.

  • Thalictrum minus ‘Adiantifolium’ Fernleaf meadowrue Z 4-8

    Loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like foliage in mid-summer.    

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    Loose panicles of tiny yellowish flowers top fern-like foliage in mid-summer.    

    Size: 36" x 24"
    Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Europe, North Africa & Siberia
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly, Deer resistant.
    Awards: Rated as excellent by the Chicago Botanic Garden.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  The species grown by Gerard in the 1590’s.

  • Thalictrum polygamum syn. T. pubescens Tall Meadowrue, King of the meadow Z. 4-8

    Showy, delicate ivory stamens July to September

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    Showy, delicate ivory stamens July to September

    Size: 3-8’ x 4’
    Care: part shade to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
    Native: Newfoundland west to the Mississippi River & south to Mississippi, WI
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
    Awards: Rated as “excellent” by the Chicago Botanic Garden
    Size: Iroquois smashed this Meadowrue to wash their heads and necks for nosebleeds. They also used it to remedy gall ailments. For the Montagnais its leaves flavored salmon.

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  Iroquois smashed this Meadowrue to wash their heads and necks for nosebleeds. They also used it to remedy gall ailments.  For the Montagnais its leaves flavored salmon.  Collected before 1793. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.

  • Thalictrum rochebruneanum Lavender mist meadowrue Z 4-7

    Lacy, fine-textured, bluish-green, pinnately compound, columbine-like foliage topped by pendulous, lavender-purple flowers (sepals) with yellow stamens July-September in airy clusters rising well above the foliage to 4-6' tall. Extraordinary en mass.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf's 100 "MUST HAVE" plants, Gardens Illustrated.

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    Lacy, fine-textured, bluish-green, pinnately compound, columbine-like foliage topped by pendulous, lavender-purple flowers (sepals) with yellow stamens July-September in airy clusters rising well above the foliage to 4-6′ tall. Extraordinary en mass.  One of internationally known garden designer Piet Oudolf’s 100 “MUST HAVE” plants, Gardens Illustrated.

    Size: 6’ x 30”
    Care: sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil
    Native: Japan
    Wildlife Value: Attracts Black swallowtail butterfly
    Awards: Missouri Botanic Garden Plant of Merit

    Thalictrum is from Greek meaning “to flourish” or “look green.”  This species collected before 1878. Likely named for French botanist Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune (1834-1912).