General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 80-120 cm
Plant Spread: 40-50 cm
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Medicinal Herb
Cut Flower
Dried Flower
Edible Parts: Leaves
Roots
Flowers
Eating Methods: Tea
Cooked
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Needs specific temperature: Sow at max.5 C° for 6 weeks, move to 15° C°. for germination
Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds very thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Can handle transplanting
Other info: germination is erratic
Pollinators: Self
Beetles
Flies
Bees

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Common names
  • Queen of the Meadow
  • Meadowsweet
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Filipendula ulmaria
  • Synonym: Filipendula denudata

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Location: Morpeth, Northumberland UK
Date: 2023-08-08
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22
Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: 2012   August
Filipendula ulmaria     seed heads
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: Jun 23, 2009 3:03 PM

Date: October 26, 2007
photo by Frank Vincentz
Location: Akureyri Botanical Gardens
credit: Hedwig Storch
Location: Morpeth, Northumberland UK
Date: 2015-07-22
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: Jun 23, 2009 3:01 PM
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-08-06
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2010-08-22
Uploaded by Lucichar

Photo Courtesy of Garden Perennials. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
  • Uploaded by vic

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: Nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-07-10
Location: Nature reserve, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-07-10
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