Dropwort
Filipendula vulgaris Moench
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Rosaceae
Formerly Filipendula pubescens, Spiraea angustifolia, Spiraea cytisus, Spiraea filipendula, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Azores, NW. Africa, Europe to S. Siberia and IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, creamRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- FILVUL
- German
- Kleines Mädesüß, Klein-Mädesüß, Knolliges Mädesüß
- Finnish
- sikoangervo
- Czech
- tužebník obecný
- French
- Filipendule commune, Spirée Filipendule, Filipendule
- Danish
- Knoldet mjødurt, Knoldet Mjødurt
- Dutch
- Knolspirea, knolspirea
- Spanish
- filipéndula, Filipéndula
- Estonian
- angerpist
- Russian
- Лабазник обыкновенный, Таволга обыкновенная
- Norwegian Bokmål
- knollmjødurt, Knollmjødurt
- Italian
- Olmaria peperina
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Filipendula vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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