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Featherleaf Rodgersia

Rodgersia pinnata

Featherleaf Rodgersia
Photo: James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0

Featherleaf Rodgersia is a large, bold-leaved herbaceous perennial from western China, grown for its textured foliage and summer plumes of small star-shaped flowers. Give it moist, rich soil in cool, partly shaded conditions.

Family
Saxifragaceae (Saxifrag family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, especially in summer, and never let it dry out.
Soil
Rich, moisture-retentive, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; hardy to about -20 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
China (E. Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou) to Myanmar
Climate
temperate

About

Rodgersia pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae, native to the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. It is a robust, herbaceous perennial growing to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 75 cm (30 in) broad, with textured palmate/pinnate leaves up to 90 cm (35 in) long, with 5-9 leaflets. 60 cm (24 in) erect panicles made up of tiny, star-shaped flowers, are borne on reddish green stems in summer. The flowers are white.

Cultivars may have white, cream, pink or red flowers. Red cultivars include 'Fireworks'.

Other Rodgersia plants

Chinese Rodgersia · Rodgersia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rodgersia pinnata 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.

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