| Scientific Name: | Sanguisorba obtusa |
| Common Name: | bottlebrush |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Oblong, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Spike, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Dark-red, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal and alternate on stems, pinnately compound, leaflets 5-9, ovate, most 3-7cm long x 2-4cm wide, margin coarsely serrate; spikes like a bottle brush due to the long pink anther filaments, flowers tightly clustered by the hundreds, 2-3mm wide, 4 pale yellow petal-like sepals. | |