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Rodgersia aesculifolia
Chinese Rodgersia is a large, shade-tolerant herbaceous perennial with horse-chestnut-like palmate leaves and tall plumes of small white or pink flowers in summer. The key to growing it is consistently moist soil in a cool, sheltered, partly shaded spot.
Rodgersia aesculifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae, native to northern China. It is a substantial, herbaceous perennial growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 1 m (3 ft) broad, with textured palmate leaves up to 25 cm (10 in) long, and 60 cm (24 in) erect panicles made up of tiny, star-shaped white or pink flowers in summer. The leaves resemble those of the horse chestnut, hence the specific epithet aesculifolia (chestnut-leaved).
This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rodgersia aesculifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
