The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Anemone thomsonii is a small, low-growing perennial geophyte from the highlands of East Africa, with finely divided leaves and a single white to pink flower with purple-striped sepals on each stem. It grows from a short, stout rhizome and does best in cool, moist, well-drained conditions that mimic its montane home.
Anemone thomsonii is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is a low to high (7–70 cm) geophyte with finely divided leaves from the ground, and a stem that carries one flower, which has about twenty sepals, that are white or light pink inside and mostly have a very wide purple stripe at the outside. The species is limited to the highlands of East Africa.
Anemone thomsonii is known from the highlands of East Africa, including Mount Hanang and the Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the Aberdare Range and Mount Kenya in Kenya.
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 thomsonii 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.
