There are about 10 species of clump forming herbaceous perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in alpine woods and meadows from Europe to Western Asia. \u00a0They produce loose basal rosettes of soft mid-green palmately lobed or palmate leaves. \u00a0It bears erect delicate umbels of small, 5 petalled flowers, surrounded by ruff-like collar of pointed papery bracts are borne in spray\u2019s held above the foliage. \u00a0Well suited in a woodland garden, on stream banks or in a moist border. \u00a0The flowers are useful in dried floral arrangements.<\/p>\n
Grow near edge of stream or ponds where soil is always moist, preferably humus rich in sun or partial shade. \u00a0Divide in early spring.<\/p>\n
Prone to gray mold, mildew, slugs <\/i><\/em>and aphids<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Astrantia maxima<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This clump forming perennial form the Caucasus grows to 24-36\u201d tall and spreads to 12\u201d wide. \u00a0It produces basal leaves to 1 \u00bc-4\u201d long deeply divide almost to base into 3-5 lobes. \u00a0In early and mid summer it bears umbels 1 \u00bd-2 \u00bd\u201d wide with sharp pointed, broad shell pink bracts each to 1 \u00bc\u201d long surrounding tiny, soft pale pink flowers, are carried singly or in twos or threes.<\/p>\n Zones 5-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Astrantia \u2013 Hattie\u2019s Pincushion \u2013 Masterwort There are about 10 species of clump forming herbaceous perennials, in this genus. \u00a0They are found in alpine woods and meadows from Europe to Western Asia. \u00a0They produce loose basal rosettes of soft mid-green palmately lobed or palmate leaves. \u00a0It bears erect delicate umbels of small, 5 petalled flowers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[49,21,41,16,31,20,26],"product_tag":[75],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254559"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}