Masterwort
Astrantia major. APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE).
Planting and Growing Masterwort
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow masterwort in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of masterwort
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for masterwort
- Season of bloom and planting time for masterwort
- When, how deep, and where to plant masterwort
- How to plant masterwort
- Watering, fertilizing, care and pests or diseases of masterwort
- Landscape and container uses of masterwort
- Comments about masterwort and its features
Growing Masterwort
Several cultivars of mounding, deciduous perennial herbs, 2–3 ft. (60–90 cm) tall. Textured, light green, sometimes variegated, palm-shaped, 5-lobed leaves, to 1 ft. (30 cm) wide.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Showy, creamy white, pink- or purple-centered flowers, tinged pink by a collar of purple leafy bracts below true petals, in clusters, 2–3 in. (50–75 mm) wide, in late spring.
Best Climates
Zones 5–7.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained soil or, in water features, shoreline sites. Fertility: Average. 6.5–7.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Early spring, zones 5–6; autumn, zone 7, in full sun to partial shade, 18 in. (45 cm) apart.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep evenly moist. Mulch. Propagate by division, seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for backgrounds, borders, screens in natural, woodland gardens and water feature shorelines. Good for cutting, drying. Pest and disease resistant.