落新妇又名红升麻,属虎耳草科落新妇属多年生宿根草本,是一种优良的园林花卉。茎基部具褐色膜质鳞片状毛或长柔毛,叶为2～4回三出复叶,具长柄,小叶披针形至阔椭圆形,边缘具锯齿。圆锥花序顶生,具苞片,花小,白色、淡紫色或紫红色,花期初夏(见彩页,张金政摄影)。由于叶形雅致,花序大而艳丽,它在本世纪初就开始被广泛引种栽培,并经种间杂交培育出许多颜色鲜艳、矮生、适于盆栽的品种,因而也是盆栽佳品。 Bride also known as red cohosh, a genus Saxifragaceae perennial perennial herb, is a fine garden flowers. Stems base with brown membranous scaly hairs or villous, leaves 2 to 4 times three out of compound leaves, with long stems, leaflets lanceolate to broadly oval, margin serrate. Panicles terminal, with bracts, flowers small, white, lavender or purple, flowering early summer (see color pages, Zhang Jinzheng photography). Because of its elegant foliage, large and beautiful inflorescences, it began to be widely introduced and cultivated at the beginning of this century, and many varieties of plants with bright colors, short dwarfs and suitable for potted plants were bred through interspecific hybridization.