Latin name: Anemonella thalictroides
by Vancouver Island Master Gardeners Association
This is an excellent early spring wildflower for woodland, native plant or wild gardens. Anemonella thalictroides can be grown in shaded areas and is a native of Missouri. It grows up to 6 inches tall and features white or pinkish flowers with 5 to 10 petal-like sepals and numerous leaves, but each flower has it own stem. The basal leaves have 10-30cm long petioles. Leaflets are widely rounded in shape and are three lobed. The flowers have short stems that hold the fully opened flowers above the foliage. Showy rounded flowers have many yellow stamens in the middle and a cup of white or pinkish sepals.
Photos courtesy of: Milner Garden Staff
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Description |
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Form: |
Clump forming perennial |
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Foliage: |
whorls of three-lobed leaves. |
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Height/Width: |
less than 6 inches (15cm) height and width |
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Hardiness Zone: |
zone 4 to 8 |
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Exposure: |
part shade |
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Flower colour: |
white or pink |
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Leaf colour: |
light to dark green to reddish purple |
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Flower time: |
early to late spring |
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Preferred soil and Watering: |
well drained , slightly alkaline soil |
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Other: |
Sow seeds when ripe or divide the plants in spring. |