Scientific Name: Anemone coronaria
Common Name: anemone
Family Name: Ranunculaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C)
Plant Type: Flowering cut plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Alkaline
Leaves: Lobed, Dissected, Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Trifoliate (ternate), Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Serrate
Flowers: Flowers solitary, White, Blue, Purple, Pink, Red, Apr-May-Jun
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, Brown, Jul
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal with 3 incised-deeply lobed leaflets, most 5-7cm long x 7-8cm wide; flowers poppy-like, 3-8cm wide, species with 6-8 petal-like sepals (several cultivars have many more), and rings of many dark stamens forming a crown around the tightly packed pistils, appear above the foliage on a long peduncle with 3 leaf-like bracts.