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ANEMONE, PULSATILLA ANEMONE, WINDFLOWER, HEPATICA Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family) |
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Anemone patens. Photograph © Galen Burrell. |
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How do we tell these two vast genera apart? Easy. Pulsatilla seeds have a long, feathery tail. Anemone seeds don't. Nonetheless, perhaps the two are really one genus. The new Flora of North America lumps them together, and tosses in Hepatica as well, citing morphological and molecular studies. The new Flora of China retains both Pulsatilla and Anemone, but acknowledges that they are probably a single genus. It retains Hepatica, but situates it only in Europe and Asia. For now, we're putting all Anemone and Pulsatilla, including the North American hepaticas, on this page, and Eurasian Hepatica here. Plants that bear both names are cross-indexed. There will not be a quiz later. |
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Photograph © Thomas G. Barnes |
Anemone acutiloba (de
Candolle) G. Lawson. You might be used to calling this beauty from E North America Hepatica nobilis
var.
acuta or Hepatica acutiloba. Under any name, it's a
wonderful plant for part shade. We have given it its
own page so you can see more pictures of it.
Blooming-size plant. $6.00. |
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Photograph © Tohoku University Botanical Garden |
Anemone cernua Thunberg.
Syn. Pulsatilla cernua (Thunberg) Berchtold & Presl. Nodding
anemone. オキナグサ
(Japanese). Chao xian bai tou weng (Chinese). The entire plant is plush with silver
hairs. Its large, rose-madder flowers shimmer like shot silk, blooming in April-May above grey-green, pinnately
cut leaves. They have a boss of short anthers and golden stamens. As the
flower matures, the stem lengthens. Native to grassy slopes in Japan, the Korean Peninsula, the
Russian Far East and northern China. Our plants descend from seeds collected wild in Japan. Height
14-28 cm (5.5-11").
Not available this season. |
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Anemone cylindrica
Gray.
White busbies (our name for it, which we observe is spreading). Our
plants descend from seeds collected wild in northern Alberta. Zone
5.
Not available this season. |
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Photograph © Paige Woodward |
Anemone
keiskeana T. Ito ex Maxim.ユキワリイチゲ,
Yukiwariichige
(Japanese). This dainty, white-flowered charmer is also
known as Tamuria keiskeana. It is a rare plant, native to NW Honshu
Island in Japan, where it grows in damp, light shade. We offer a form with beautifully
mottled leaves, nursery-propagated, not torn from the wild. Here you see
it emerging in our garden in mid-February. It will vanish by summer, to
return in early spring. Zone 6, perhaps colder. Blooming-size plant. $8.75. |
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Photograph © Cédric Basset |
Anemone maxima | |||
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Anemone multifida
Poiret,
white
form. Cutleaf anemone. Native to open, often stony grassland in much
of North America and to Chile and Argentina. Our plants are from seeds collected wild in British
Columbia's Cariboo region. Zone 2.
Blooming-size plant. $5.00. |
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| Anemone multifida
Poiret,
red
form. Cutleaf anemone. Our seeds are from the garden of the Alaska naturalist
Verna Pratt. Zone 2.
Not available this season. |
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| Anemone narcissiflora
subsp. alaskana Hultén.
Not available this season. |
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Photograph © Paige Woodward |
Anemone
nemorosa
Linnaeus 'Viridescens'. Variegated
without being strident, this little plant makes a bright groundcover in
dappled shade. Like most forms of A. nemorosa, it will wait a year
or so, then start spreading. Zone 6, perhaps colder. Blooming-size plant. $8.00. |
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Photograph © Pat Woodward |
Anemone occidentalis
Wats. Syn. Pulsatilla occidentalis. Towhead
babies. Our plants are from seeds collected on several mountains in SW British
Columbia. Zone 4.
Blooming-size plant. In Canada, $5.00. |
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| Anemone patens Pritzel. Syn. Pulsatilla patens. Pasqueflower,
Prairie smoke, Prairie crocus. Pictured
at the top of this page. Usually the flowers are blue to purple but
occasionally they are cream or white. Native to prairies and open places
in much of North America and Eurasia, this is a late-spring herald of
summer. Imagine it in bloom to the horizon! Our plants are from seeds
collected wild in Alberta. Zone 4.
Blooming-size plant. $6.00. |
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| Anemone
raddeana Regel.
多被银莲花,
Duo bei yin lian hua
(Chinese); アズマイチゲ,
Azuma ichirinsou, Azuma-ichige,
Azuma ichirinsou, Azuma-ichige (Japanese).
Blooming-size plant. $9.00. |
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Photograph © Pat Woodward |
Anemone
sp. Syn. Pulsatilla. Black.
Our plants are from seed received as from China. Zone 6, perhaps colder.
Not available this season. |
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