Meadow Rue

Meadow rue - Thalictrum petaloideum.
Ornamental foliage plant. For the rockgarden.
Flowering season: Juni-Juli.
Winter hardiness zones: Z4-Z8.
Colour: pure white, delicate umbels, blue-green pinnatifid foliage, very attractive.
The plant is naked, with a strong furrowed stem 15-40 cm tall. The leaves are gray-green, matte, without prominent ribs, concentrated at the base of the stem, the plates are broadly triangular in outline, twice or thrice pinnate, 4-10 cm long and 3-8 cm wide, the final segments are small, rounded, elliptical or obovate, entire or obtuse -2-3-blade.
The flowers are white or slightly pinkish, erect, on pedicels 1-3 cm long, in a dense corymbose panicle. The stamens are white, numerous, 6-8 mm long, 2.5-3 times longer than the pistils, their filaments are club-shaped at the top, almost twice as wide as the anthers. Fruitlets are sessile, ovoid, thick, with 8 strongly protruding blunt ribs. The nose is about 1 mm long, curved at the apex.
Used in border plantings.