A clump-forming, tuberous perennial with blue-green leaves divided into ovate or lobed leaflets and, from midsummer into autumn, wiry stems bearing white flowers with prominent, bright yellow stamens.
Thalictrum can be rhizomatous or tuberous perennials with ternately or pinnately divided, often attractive foliage, and panicles or racemes of small flowers with showy stamens and sometimes large colourful petal-like sepals.
