Wood anemone
Anemone nemorosa L.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 13 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Ranunculaceae
Also called Smell fox, Windflower, European wood anemone, European thimbleweed, Wood Anemone
Formerly Anemanthus nemorosus, Anemonanthea nemorosa, Anemone nemorosa-alba, Anemone pentaphylla, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to W. CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS part; Wikipedia shade
- Height
- 10 cm to 15 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 5–15 cm
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS white; Wikipedia blue, pink, violet, white
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Lithuanian
- Baltažiedė plukė
- Polish
- zawilec gajowy, Zawilec gajowy
- Catalan
- buixol blanc, Buixol
- Danish
- Hvid anemone, Hvid Anemone
- Dutch
- Bosanemoon, bosanemoon
- Swedish
- vitsippa, Vitsippa
- Finnish
- valkovuokko
- German
- Buschwindröschen, Busch-Windröschen
- French
- anémone sylvie, Anémone des bois, anémone des bois
- Czech
- sasanka hajní
- Italian
- Anemone dei boschi
- root
- kvitsymre, Lus na gaoithe, Blodyn y gwynt
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Anemone nemorosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.