Scientific Name: Eriocapitella x hybrida
Common Name: windflower, Japanese anemone
Family Name: Ranunculaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Upright
Form: Oval - vertical, Round
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Filler, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Summer interest, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Serrate
Flowers: Flowers solitary, White, Pink, Aug-Sep-Oct
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, White, Brown, Oct-Nov
Key ID Features:
Basal clump; leaves with long petioles and 3 irregularly ovate leaflets with serrated margins and acute tips; flowers white or pink, slightly cupped, to 8cm wide, multiple stamens and pistils, most with many petal-like sepals, Aug-Oct, scented.