The inflorescence occurs on a long naked stalk, consisting of a panicle of pink buds and flowers about 5-8" across. Each flower is about 1/3" across, consisting of 5 pink petals and numerous long white stamens with pink anthers.
Lucas Land
Queen-of-the-Prairie
Filipendula rubra
At about 3-6 feet tall, the central stem is smooth and sometimes reddish. The alternate compound leaves are up to 2' long become much smaller and sparser while ascending the central stem. Each compound leaf consists of 1-7 palmate leaflets that is up to 6" long and across and has 2-5 cleft lobes. The margins are coarsely dentate.