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Enemion biternatum
Also called False Rue Anemone
A spring-flowering woodland perennial native to moist deciduous forest in the eastern US and southern Ontario, grown mainly as a shade groundcover. Its key to success is shade, consistent moisture and leaving it undisturbed, since it goes dormant by early summer.
Enemion biternatum (syn. Isopyrum biternatum), commonly known as the false rue-anemone, is a spring ephemeral native to moist deciduous woodland in the eastern United States and extreme southern Ontario.
The flowers produce pollen but no nectar. Small insects such as sweat bees (Lasioglossum and Halictus), mining bees (Andrena), honeybees (Apis mellifera), and hoverflies visit the flowers to collect or feed on pollen. Some bees likely visit searching in vain for nectar.
Western false rue anemone · Siskiyou false rue anemone · False rue anemone
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Enemion biternatum 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.
