| 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, Dentate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Spike, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Dark-red, Brown, Sep-Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves compound with 5-9 oval leaflets with coarsely margins; florets small pale yellow petals, and tightly clustered by the hundreds in spike that's like a bottle-brush due to the long pink anther filaments. Perennial herb from a stout rhizome, smooth; stems erect to ascending, 25-80cm tall, sometimes branched above. | |