General Culture:

Grow in organically rich, medium to wet, well-drained soil in part shade. Best performance occurs in cool summer climates where night temperatures consistently dip below 70 degrees F... a cultural preference that obviously does not fit the profile of a typical St. Louis summer where this plant may labor. In optimum growing conditions, plants may spread to form large clumps by both stolons and self-seeding. Flowers of this cultivar do not always come true from seed however.

Noteworthy Characteristics:

This masterwort cultivar is a compact, umbelliferous, stoloniferous, clump-forming perennial which typically grows 18-30" tall. Flower is a domed umbel (to 1.5" diameter) of silver-tinged, claret-red florets subtended by a showy ruff of papery, petal-like, rose involucral bracts which extend beyond the flower. Medium green leaves are palmately cut into 3-7 (usually 5) toothed lobes. Leaves appear primarily in basal clumps, with smaller versions on the stems. Long late spring to early summer bloom. Bracts usually remain attractive well after bloom.