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Yellow Anemone

Yellow Anemone

Anemone ranunculoides

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How common: Common

Yellow Anemone is a low spring wildflower with bright yellow, buttercup-like blooms. It grows in rich, moist woods and along streams, and is also found in parks and old gardens. It flowers early in spring, often alongside Wood Anemone. All parts are poisonous.

Did you know?

  • Often spreads by a creeping underground stem, forming bright yellow carpets in spring.
  • Can hybridise with Wood Anemone where they grow together.

About the species

Identification

A 7–30 cm tall perennial with an upright, unbranched stem. Spreads by a creeping brown underground stem, often forming patches. Early spring brings one large basal leaf on a long stalk, up to 10 cm wide, split into 3–5 deep lobes with coarse teeth. Just below the flower is a collar of three smaller leaves, each divided into three narrow, cut or toothed lobes. Flowers one or two, 1.5–3 cm wide, bright yellow with five petal-like parts and many yellow stamens; outer side slightly hairy. Later a cluster of small, short-stalked, hairy seeds. Most like Wood Anemone, which has white flowers. Flowers in Finland in May–June.

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

herb-rich forest

Toxicity

A poisonous plant – do not taste it. Source: HUS Poison Information Centre (Finland), tel. 0800 147 111.

Flowering

May–Jun

About the habitat

Fertile, moist broadleaf woods, stream and river banks, and leafy meadows; also in parks and old gardens, often on rich, clayey soils. Found mainly in southern and southwestern Finland; native and established there.

Sources

Photo: Paolo Zucca, CC BY 4.0 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/6162953589

Text: Pinkka: Kasvitieteen retkeily Ahvenanmaalle - Nåtön biologinen asema, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.37883

Text: Pinkka (Luomus), CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.37883

Text: Pinkka: A Pohjolan kasveja - Abies-Allium, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.37883

Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltavuokko

See also