| Scientific Name: | Ruta graveolens |
| Common Name: | common rue |
| Family Name: | Rutaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Herb, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Glaucous, Distinctive smell, Odd-pinnate, Obovate, Rhomboidal, Incised |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Sub-shrub (becomes woody at base); leaves alternate, compound 3-9cm long, leaflets deeply divided into 2-4 oblanceolate lobes, bluish-green, powdery; florets ~1.5cm wide, 4 or 5 cupped yellow petals, 8 or 10 yellow anthers, filaments ~6mm long. | |