| Scientific Name: | Filipendula ulmaria |
| Common Name: | European meadowsweet |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Aquatic - ponds, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Medicinal plant, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Spring interest, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Distinctive smell, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, Green-yellow, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, compound with 7-9 main leaflets (some much smaller leaflets long rachis), terminal leaflet much larger reaching ~10cm wide and with 3 main lobes, serrate, pubescent, undersides whitish; flowers ~8mm wide with 5 white petals and many stamens, in dense, fine-textured panicles about 10-15cm long x ~6cm wide. | |