Scientific Name: Anemonoides 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, 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 2.5-5(-8)cm wide, sepals 5-8, bright white, May-June, peduncle with 3 leaflet-like bracts; fruit a aggregate of woolly achenes.