Wood Anemone

Anemone nemorosa

Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa

An early spring flower of delicate white with 6-12 petals. The flowers only open fully in good light, and will follow the direction of the sun’s travel across the skies. The leaves are long-stalked, and deeply lobed.

Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa

It flowers March to June. The Wood Anemone forms spectacular drifts in deciduous woodland, meadows and hedgerows. Widespread and locally common.

May 2013, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire. © Pete Hillman 2013.

26 thoughts on “Wood Anemone”

  1. Vicki
    Reply

    How pretty that woodland scene is. Reminds me of the bluebell carpet in Sussex when I lived the in 1978. Just a carpet of flowers.

    Liked by 1 person

    • Pete Hillman
      Reply

      Thank you, Vicki 🙂 I have never seen Wood Anemones growing in my local woods, but we have thick drifts of Blubells. They are not flowering yet, but will be before long. Seeing these drifts of white blooms when I visited the Wyre Forest was really quite something special and I wanted to try and capture that enchanted woodland scene.

      Like

  4. Didis Art Design
    Reply

    Good morning, dear Pete

    Does it mean: “The anemone will follow the direction of the sun’s travel across the skies.” – that during one day it is always oriented towards the sunlight? This behaviour plants do normally over days and months and after a certain time you can see – how they grow, namely towards the light of the sun – but to see this happen during a day is really fantastic. I did not know it.

    Thanks, Pete, for sharing 🙂
    Have a nice day
    Didi

    Liked by 1 person

  6. Brian Skeys
    Reply

    We saw a nice drift of these in the wood by Great Witley Court last spring, they are a joy to see. We purchased a lovely alpine form at a plant fair last weekend.

    Liked by 1 person

  7. Arkenaten
    Reply

    The anemone of my anemone is my friend.

    Autumn is inexorably creeping up on us Down South, though we wont feel the ”bite” for a month or so yet.

    Liked by 1 person

  9. shoreacres
    Reply

    This is just remarkable. We have anemones, too, and they look much like yours, but they aren’t so tall, and I’ve never seen such large groups of them. I discovered the last time I was out that we actually have two species. I’m going to try and find them again tomorrow and see if I can get better photos of the buds: provided they’re still blooming, that is.

    Liked by 1 person

    • Pete Hillman
      Reply

      Thank you for your lovely comment, Linda 🙂 The drifts of these pale blooms can be quite magical amongst the trees. I had never seen so many before or since I took these images. I hope you get to see and photo your anemones there! It would be interesting to see what they look like.

      Liked by 1 person

Your thoughts ...

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.