Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa 1

Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa
Other names: European Thimbleweed, Windflower, Thimbleweed, Smell Fox
Family: Ranunculaceae

Flower Colour:

white,

pink,

Bloom in:

March,

April,

May,

Type of flowering:

number of petals 6,

number of petals 7,

flowers with more than 7 petal,

Anemonoides nemorosa is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant less than 30 centimetres (12 in) in height. The compound basal leaves are palmate or ternate (divided into three lobes). They grow from underground root-like stems called rhizomes and die back down by mid summer (summer dormant).

The plants start blooming in spring, March to May in the British Isles soon after the foliage emerges from the ground. The flowers are solitary, held above the foliage on short stems, with a whorl of three palmate or palmately-lobed leaflike bracts beneath. The flowers are 2 centimetres (0.8 in) diameter, with six or seven (and on rare occasions eight to ten) tepals (petal-like segments) with many stamens. In the wild the flowers are usually white but may be pinkish, lilac or blue, and often have a darker tint on the backs of the tepals. [Wikipedia]