Rodgersia pinnata

Rodgersia pinnata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Saxifragaceae
Genus: Rodgersia
Species: R. pinnata
Binomial name
Rodgersia pinnata
Franch.
Young plant of Rodgersia pinnata ‘Fireworks’

Rodgersia pinnata is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae, native to the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. It is a robust, herbaceous perennial growing to 120 cm (47 in) tall by 75 cm (30 in) broad, with textured palmate/pinnate leaves up to 90 cm (35 in) long, with 5-9 leaflets. 60 cm (24 in) erect panicles made up of tiny, star-shaped flowers, are borne on reddish green stems in summer. The flowers are white.[1]

Cultivars may have white, cream, pink or red flowers.[2][3] Red cultivars include 'Fireworks'.[4][5]

R. pinnata is useful as an ornamental groundcover plant for the margins of streams or ponds. The cultivar 'Superba' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [6]

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