| Scientific Name: | Anemonoides blanda ( syn. Anemone blanda ) |
| Common Name: | Greek windflower, blue wood anemone |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Ground cover, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Oblong, Dentate, Palmately lobed, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Blue, Purple, Pink, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, Brown, May |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal with 3 incised-lobed leaflets, rounded with mucronate tips, most 2-5cm wide, pubescent upper surface; flowers daisy-like, 2.5-8cm wide with 9-14 petal-like sepals, from Apr. to early May, solitary, whorl of leafy bracts on scape; plants go dormant after flowering. | |