The Wood Anemone Flowers

The wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) is a low perennial in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). The plant has three leaves and white flowers. The plant may be 10-25 cm high. There are six petals, which are also purple-red in what could be. The petals are hairy. The petals are colored sepals, petals absent. The flowers alone. The plant blooms from March to May The flower stem is hairy. Among the flower are three leaves. Each fruit contains only one seed. The leaves are palmately composed. The root is close to the surface and horizontally and white buttons.

The main method for wood anemone to procreate is through rhizomes. The plant also provides seeds with an ant sandwich, which she distributed by ants.

The wood anemone is primarily a forest plants in deciduous forests. But he also comes in grasslands and ditch banks on. Possibly, these localities outside the forest first wooded and maintains the plant after harvesting. For Belgium, the species for over 300 m in grasslands specified.

In the Netherlands, the plants in areas with estates as stinzen plant. Often there are plants with full flowers.

The plant is often used as an ornamental plant in which, as there are different cultivars. The plants with double flowers are an example.

Wood anemone flowers so early in the year because the trees are still bare. When the foliage of the trees the forest floor is dim, the plant is nearing the end of its growth cycle.

In the Netherlands and Belgium, the local general type, although there are areas in which he frankly rare.

The plant can be infected by the cup mushroom anemone.





Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosanemoon

See also: International Flower Delivery, Florist