flowering rush
Butomus umbellatus
RHS Plants for Pollinators
USDA zones3 to 11
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterNeeds moist soil
Size1 to 5 feet tall12 to 24 inches wide
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus) is a perennial for pollinator gardens and low maintenance plantings. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full sun and moist, sandy, loamy, or clay soil. It blooms from early to late summer, and bees visit the flowers. It grows 12 to 59 inches tall and spreads 12 to 24 inches wide.
Pairs well with Pickerel weed, Broadleaf cattail, and Interrupted fern.
Native range
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, and 19 more places. See all 23
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, Africa, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., Primorye, Sardegna, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Xinjiang, and Yakutiya.