Rue Anemone

  • Bloom Time: April-June
  • Bloom Color: Pink
  • Height: 6”
  • Sun: Partial to shade
  • Soil: Medium-dry to medium

Anemonella thalictroides

Caterpillar food for
Pink-Patched Looper Moth (Eosphoropteryx thyatyroides), Crocus Geometer (Xanthotype sospeta), Canadian Owlet (Calyptra canadensis), Straight-Lined Looper Moth (Pseudeva purpurigera), Meadow Rue Borer (Papaipema unimoda), Snowy Geometer (Eugonobapta nivosaria)

Attracts these pollinators
Sweat Bees (Lasioglossum spp.), Large Mining Bees (Andrena spp.), Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina spp.), Cuckoo Bees (Nomada spp.), Mason Bees (Osmia spp.), Sweat Bees (Halictus spp.), Syrphid Flies (Melanostoma spp.)

More information: Minnesota Wildflowers

Photo credit: (c)2007 Derek Ramsey, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html

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