| Scientific Name: | Anemone sylvestris |
| Common Name: | snowdrop anemone |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Cut flower or foliage, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Whorled, Basal, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Trifoliate (ternate), Obovate, Dentate, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, White, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves palmately compound with three obovate sessile leaflets 3-6cm long x 2-5cm wide, leaflets deeply lobed and toothed, pubescent beneath; flowers 2.5-8cm wide, sepals 5-8, bright white, late spring; peduncle with 3 leaflet-like bracts. | |