Filipendula ulmaria(L.) Maxim.

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WFO wfo-0000983427 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Vladimir Atachkin
fig. a Vladimir Atachkin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205478825
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. b Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205375442
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. c Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205477128
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. d Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205375273
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205821767
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205229621
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Rhonda Ridley
fig. g Rhonda Ridley, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204728743
Filipendula ulmaria, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205250649

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Flowering n = 3,618 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 3,618 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 101 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Filipendula denudata (J.Presl & C.Presl) Fritsch
  • Filipendula glauca (Schultz) Asch. & Graebn. ex Dalla Torre & Sarnth.
  • Filipendula megalocarpa Juz.
  • Filipendula stepposa Juz.
  • Filipendula subdenudata Fritsch
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. apetala Airy Shaw
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. cinerea (Glaab) Glaab
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. denudata (J.Presl & C.Presl) Beck
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. glaberrima Beck
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. heterochroa (Borbás) Soó
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. megalocarpa (Juz.) T.Shimizu
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. nivea (Wallr.) Hayek
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. pubescens Beck
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. pulchrifolia T.Ulvinen
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. subdenudata (Fritsch) Soó
  • Filipendula ulmaria f. subdenudata Glaab
  • Filipendula ulmaria prol. quinqueloba (Baumg.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Filipendula ulmaria subsp. denudata (J.Presl & C.Presl) Hayek
  • Filipendula ulmaria subsp. filipendula Domin
  • Filipendula ulmaria subsp. megalocarpa (Juz.) I.A.Shantser
  • Filipendula ulmaria subsp. nivea (Wallr.) Hayek
  • Filipendula ulmaria subsp. pentapetala Gilib. ex Dostál
  • Filipendula ulmaria subsp. quinqueloba (Baumg.) Podp.
  • Filipendula ulmaria var. cinerea (Glaab) Asch. & Graebn.

and 77 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.