| Scientific Name: | Thalictrum spp. |
| Common Name: | meadow rue |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Bipinnate, Oblong, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Yellow, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Follicle, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, bipinnately compound, with palmately veined leaflets, commonly glaucous (blue-green in colour); florets in dense panicles, usually small and apetalous, stamens long and numerous and can be white, yellow, pink or pale purple (some species also have large sepals that are brightly coloured and petal-like). | |