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Anemone lancifolia
Also called Mountain thimbleweed
A small woodland wildflower from the southeastern United States, growing 20 to 30 cm tall from a horizontal rhizome and bearing white flowers in spring. Grow it in cool, moist, shaded woodland conditions.
Anemonoides lancifolia (formerly known as Anemone lancifolia), the lanceleaf anemone or mountain thimbleweed, is an herbaceous plant species in the family Ranunculaceae. The genus occurs in the Southeastern United States. Plants grow 20 to 30 cm (7.9 to 11.8 in) tall, growing from a horizontally-orientated rhizome, flowering mid-spring to early summer. The flowers have white sepals that are 12–20 mm long. This species much resembles Anemonoides quinquefolia, of which it was formerly considered a subspecies, except that it is larger growing. After flowering, fruits called achenes are formed in a small cluster; each achene is 3.5–5 mm long, lacks wings and has a straight or partly curved beak that is 1–1.5 mm long.
Both the Latin and common names reference the leaf shape, with narrower leaflets, with a distinctive serration when compared to A. quinquefolia.
Anemonoides apennina · Tenpetal thimbleweed · Anemonoides blanda · Carolina anemone · Poppy anemone · Candle anemone · Drummond's anemone · Edwards Plateau thimbleweed · Broad Leaved Anemone · Southern Anemone · Pacific anemone · Smallflowered anemone
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemonoides lancifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
