Filipendula Rubra

herbaceous perennial native to the United States, queen of the prairie is an attractive addition to bog gardens and streamside plantings. It has elegant, deeply cut foliage and dense clusters of small pink flowers held above, and has been given the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). The generic name Filipendula comes from the Latin for thread (filum) and drooping (pendulus) in reference to the root tubers of some species which hang together joined by fine fibres. Queen of the prairie is native from the Eastern to Central United States (from Pennsylvania to Georgia and west to Iowa and Missouri) An attractive, spreading plant for damp soil and boggy areas. The large, deeply cut leaves are fresh green and the flower spikes, which appear from early to mid-summer, are dark rose-pink becoming paler with age. The Royal Horticultural Society have given it the Award of Garden Merit (AGM)..