General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 24-36 inches
Plant Spread: 24 inches
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Lavender
Mauve
White
Other: Rosy-mauve
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: refrigerate 4-5 weeks
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Pollinators: Wind
Various insects

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Common names
  • Meadow Rue
  • Columbine Meadow-Rue
  • French Meadow Rue
  • Greater Meadow-Rue
  • Siberian Columbine
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Thalictrum aquilegifolium
  • Synonym: Thalictrum aquilegiifolium

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Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2017-06-03
Location: Coastal WA 8b
Date: 2023-05-15
Location: Chelsea Flower show. UK
Date: 2022-05-28
Location: My North Yorkshire Garden
Date: 2018-06-09
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (near Brussels - Belgium)
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (near Brussels - Belgium)
Location: Twisp
Date: May
Location: Twisp
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2012-04-20
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Location: Twisp
Date: Early October
Location: Twisp
Date: June
Photo by Windigo
Location: No.Calif amongst the Redwoods
Date: 2011-06-16
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
Location: No.Calif amongst the Redwoods
Date: 2011-06-16
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
Location: My garden
Date: 2017-07-09
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2006-09-03
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2012-05-13
Location: oregon
Date: summer 2011
in mostly shade
Location: Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2010-05-11
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: My garden in Kalama, Wa. Zone 8
Date: 2012-06-16
Seed pods starting to form.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: western Oregon
Date: summer 2014

Photo courtesy of: Jose Vicente Ferrandez
Location: My North Yorkshire Garden
Date: 2018-06-21
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2012-04-17
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2012-04-17
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Twisp
Date: 2015-05-17
Just beginning to bloom
Location: My Garden
Date: 2013-06-19

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2012-04-20

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2012-05-13
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Courtesy of Diane's Flower Seeds
Location: western Oregon
Date: 2016-02-15
Location: western Oregon
Date: summer 2014
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