Pink thistle-like flowers on a variety of offshoots from a single green stem.
A full grown Meadowrue plant. It has some tall stalks with old blooms and gray bark. The rest of the plant is made up of green leaves.

Thalictrum polycarpum (Tall Western Meadow Rue)

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Plant Description: Upright, dioecious (male and female flowers on different plants) perennial. Thalictrum polycarpum is a beautiful plant with bluish-green ternately (divided into threes) compound leaves, reminiscent of it’s close relative Columbine. The leaves have a distinct pleasant smell when crushed. Male flowers are pendulant having many large tassel-like stamen dangling below green sepals. Female flowers are in dense, terminal, clusters in a panicle inflorescence, the most visible part being the pistils that are reddish to light purple, appearing brush like. Leaves turn yellow in autumn.

  • Height: Up to 3 ft
  • Width: 1-2 ft
  • Watering needs: Likes moisture, fairly drought resistant once established.
  • Sun needs: Partial shade, dappled light
  • Soil needs: Moist soil, well-draining soil
  • Bloom Time: Early spring

Landscape Use and Ecological Function: This native plant is found in mixed evergreen forests, oak woodlands, and along streams in shaded moist forests. Its native range is throughout California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah at higher elevations of up to 10,000 ft.

*Photo by SevenOaks Nursery*

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