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Yellow Meadow Rue

Thalictrum speciosissimum

Also called Tall Meadow Rue

Yellow Meadow Rue
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0

Yellow Meadow Rue is a tall perennial meadow plant from the Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa, grown for its airy, fern-like foliage and clusters of yellow flowers. It needs good light, moist but well-drained soil and a cool root zone.

Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth, and avoid waterlogging in winter.
Soil
Fertile, well-drained loam with added organic matter.
Temperature
10–25 °C; hardy to about -15 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Iberian Pen., NW. Africa
Climate
temperate

About

Thalictrum speciocissimum is a species of meadow-rue (Thalictrum). It is native to Portugal and Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, and to Morocco and Algeria in northwestern Africa.

It is a species in the Betic-Rifan flora, a group of plant species common to the Baetic mountains of southern Spain and the Rif mountains of northern Morocco.

Other Thalictrum plants

French Meadow-rue · Chinese Meadow Rue · Common meadow-rue · Dwarf Meadow Rue · Lesser meadow-rue · Western meadow-rue · King of the meadow · Waxyleaf meadow-rue · Lavender Mist Meadowrue · Small Meadow Rue · Fewflower meadow-rue · Rue anemone

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thalictrum speciosissimum 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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