| Scientific Name: | Astilbe x arendsii cvs. |
| Common Name: | hybrid astilbe, garden astilbe |
| Family Name: | Saxifragaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Aquatic - ponds, Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest, Summer interest, Waterside planting, Winter interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Bog, Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Biternate, Oblong, Ovate, Double serrate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Purple, Pink, Red, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Follicle, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Purple, Pink, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves 2-3x compound, 20-75cm long; rachis dark red, swollen and conspicuously jointed at base and junction of petolies; leaflets ovate-oblong, most 7-9cm long x 3-5cm wide, margins serrate; panicles fluffy and pyramidal shaped, florets small and numerous, 5-15mm wide, purple to white. | |