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Torrey's Meadow Rue is a perennial herb that grows in Southern, Central, and Northern California, especially in the Peninsular Ranges' Southern Oak Woodlands. It grows in moist places, often in colonies along stream courses and on shaded slopes in Oak Woodland and Mixed Evergreen Forest habitats.
Torrey's Meadow Rue is used in woodland and shade gardens as a perennial background plant. It has beautiful lacy blue-green foliage that unfurls from purplish shoots.
The tiny unisexual flowers are produced atop 2 - 4 ft. tall stalks on separate plants. The male flowers are showier with dangling cream-yellow colored stamens; the female flowers are clusters of greenish pistils.
It goes dormant in late summer when it is allowed to go dry.
This Meadow Rue is easy to grow, in part sun to shade. It grows with occasional to regular irrigation, and can be drought-tolerant once established.
Perennial herb
2 - 4 ft Tall
2 ft Wide
Upright
Fast
Winter Deciduous
Cream, Green, Yellow
Spring
Deer resistant
Partial Shade
Moderate
Keep moist, Max 3x / month once established
Easy
Tolerates cold to 10 - 15° F
Fast, Medium, Slow
Adaptable.
For propagating by seed: No treatment.
4*, 5*, 6*, 7, 9, 14*, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22*, 23*, 24*
Moist places
Foothill Woodland, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Northern Oak Woodland, Southern Oak Woodland
Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa), Coral Bells (Heuchera spp.), Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum), Southern Maiden Hair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris), Giant Chain Fern (Woodwardia fimbriata), Western Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum)
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 5 likely
Common Eupithacia
Eupithecia miserulata
Satyr Pug
Eupithecia satyrata
Speckled Arches
Lacanobia subjuncta
Hitched Arches
Melanchra adjuncta