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Anemone parviflora
Also called Northern Anemone, Small Flower Anemone, Small Flowered Anemone
Smallflowered anemone is a small, low-growing wildflower from the buttercup family that spreads from a thin rhizome and bears a single white or pale blue flower in late spring to midsummer. It is a cold-climate native that prefers cool, moist, lime-rich soil.
Anemone parviflora, the northern anemone, or small-flowered anemone, is a herbaceous flowering plant species in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 10 to 30 cm (3.9 to 12 in) tall, from a thin, 2 mm thick rhizome. Stem leaves without petioles, basal leaves few with long petioles and deeply three-parted. Plants flowering late spring to mid summer with the flowers composed of five or six sepals normally white or soft bluish colored, 8 to 13 mm long. The plants produce one peduncle with one solitary flower. Fruits in heads ovoid in shape, 10 mm long or less, fruits densely woolly, not winged and with straight 1 to 2.5 mm long beaks.
Native to central and western North America mostly in Canada and Alaska but also south to Idaho and even into Utah where it is found growing on wet rocky ledges, meadows and along stream banks in normally calcareous soils.
Anemonoides apennina · Tenpetal thimbleweed · Anemonoides blanda · Carolina anemone · Poppy anemone · Candle anemone · Drummond's anemone · Edwards Plateau thimbleweed · Broad Leaved Anemone · Southern Anemone · Anemonoides lancifolia · Pacific anemone
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemone parviflora 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.
