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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 12 of West Virginia’s 55 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
15 kinds of caterpillars

Grows well with

Facts from the Quercus record for Thalictrum dioicum.