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Early Meadow-rue in flower
Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Early Meadow-rue

Thalictrum dioicum

Purple and white flowers from April into May. It grows wild in 3 of South Carolina’s 46 counties.

Light
Part shade to full sun
Soil
Moist soil
Size
1.5 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
Flowers
Purple and white, Apr to May
Roots
A clump of fibrous roots
Kind
Wildflower

At its grown size

Early Meadow-rue, drawn in a bed

in flower

What it feeds

Caterpillars
9 kinds of caterpillars

Grows well with

Facts from the Quercus record for Thalictrum dioicum.