Astrantia major ‘Cerise Button’
Astrantia major 'Cerise Button' is a masterwort with reddish-pink pincushion-like flowers and green palmate foliage.
Astrantia major ‘Cersie Button’ is a masterwort with upright, clump-forming dark green, serrated, palmate foliage topped with branching stems of flowering umbels in a gorgeous cerise reddish-pink colour. Masterworts bloom for months on end and are incredibly valuable for a range of light conditions from part shade to full sun. The detailing in their pincushion-like flowers with their subtending involucral bracts are intricate and beautiful. Great in the cottage, informal, coastal and pollinator gardens and in the vase. Pollinator attractor. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Masterwort
Family: Apiaceae (The Carrot/Parsley Family)
Zone Hardiness: 4-8
Light: Part Shade, Part Sun, Full Sun
Height: 12-24"
Width: 8-12"
Primary Bloom Colour: Pink
Secondary Bloom Colour:
Foliage Colour: Green
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Summer
Soil Moisture: Average, Moist
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Fragrance: No
Berries:
Benefits: Butterflies Bees
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Native to mountain meadows, grasslands, woodland clearings and most areas near streams in Europe and western Asia.
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