| Scientific Name: | Astrantia major |
| Common Name: | masterwort, astrantia |
| Family Name: | Apiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Perennial border, Summer interest, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Ciliate, Dentate, Palmately lobed, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Clump-forming herbaceous perennial; leaves basal, palmately lobed, orbicular in outline, most blades 10-18cm wide; flowers small and in compact umbels surrounded by a rosette of showy bracts on branched, erect, wiry peduncles. | |