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 outine, most blades 10-18cm wide; flowers small and in compact umbels surrounded by a rosette of showy bracts on branched, erect, wiry peduncles.