Meadow rue features lacy, fine-textured, medium green, compound foliage (superficially resembling columbine or maidenhair fern) and terminal, wiry-branched sprays of tiny, purplish-white flowers which appear in early summer.

Meadow rue, purple meadowrue
(Thalictrum dasycarpum).

Meadow rue is a tall plant with an early summer bloom provides color and contrast to the perennial border, wildflower garden, meadow or naturalized area.