Filipendula palmata (Pall.) Maxim.

Flowering stem 90-150 cm. Basal leaves palmate, 3-5 or 7-9 lobed, lower trifid-dentate. Stem leaves 15-20 cm x 15-25 cm. Inflorescence terminal, compact, umbel-raceme, flowers white or pale pink, numerous. V - April to October. Fl - July. Fr - August. P - by division or seed. Shade tolerant but prefers sunny places. Z 4.

Plants 0.6–1.5 m tall. Stems sulcate, pubescent or glabrescent. Stipules semicordate, large, herbaceous, margin sharply doubly serrate; petiole pubescent or subglabrous; leaf blade pinnate, with 2 pairs of lateral leaflets, abaxially densely white tomentose, sparsely pubescent, or glabrous, adaxially sparsely pubescent or glabrous; terminal leaflet palmately 5–9-parted, rather large, segments lanceolate to rhombic-lanceolate, margin lobed or sharply doubly serrate; lateral leaflets 3–5-parted, smaller than terminal one. Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, many flowered. Flowers bisexual, 5–7 mm in diam.; pedicel sparsely pubescent, glabrescent when old. Sepals ovate, glabrous abaxially. Petals white, obovate, base long clawed. Achenes basally attached to receptacle, shortly stipitate, erect, long ciliate along abaxial and adaxial sides. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep. 2n = 28, 42–44.

Siberia (southwestern part of eastern Siberia), Far East (except extreme northern regions) and adjacent parts of China and Mongolia. Wet, mesic meadows, deciduous forests, river banks.

Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi [N Korea, Mongolia, E Russia].

Forest margins, sunny mountian slopes, valleys, grassy areas, shady and moist places; 200--2300 m.

Filipendula palmata is a species of plant in the family Rosaceae that is native to China.