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Eriocapitella japonica
Also called Japanese Anemone
Eriocapitella japonica is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae commonly cultivated as an ornamental. The specific epithet japonica means "from Japan", which is a misnomer since the species is introduced in Japan. It is native to China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. It was formerly a member of genus Anemone and shares the common name Japanese anemone with several other Eriocapitella species.
Varieties of Eriocapitella japonica are cultivated worldwide, especially in China, Japan, and Korea, where naturalized populations are known to exist. Hundreds of years ago, a form of E. hupehensis with smaller, semi-double flowers and pink sepals escaped cultivation and spread across China to Japan and Korea. After finding this form in a Shanghai graveyard in 1843, the plant explorer Robert Fortune sent it home to England where it became known as E. japonica, the Japanese anemone. European horticulturists crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia to produce cultivars of the artificial hybrid E. × hybrida.
At the Chicago Botanic Garden, Rudy experimented with 26 cultivars of fall-blooming anemones over a 5-year period beginning in 1998. His experiments included 4 cultivars of E. japonica, one of which (E. japonica 'Prinz Heinrich') had the longest bloom length (65 days) of any cultivar.
Eriocapitella japonica is native to Central China, East China, South China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. It has been cultivated and naturalized in the following Chinese provinces:
Himalayan Windflower · Eriocapitella vitifolia · Hubei Anemone · Japanese Anemone · Himalayan Windflower · Eriocapitella rupicola · Grape Leaved Anemone · Fall Blooming Anemones
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriocapitella japonica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
