Scientific name: Anemone nemorosa L.
Common name: Wood Anemone
Description
Habit: Annual or perennial, to 30 cm high.
Stems: Erect, with long-creeping rhizomes; flowering stem with a whorl of 3 large, leaf-like bracts halfway up the stem.
Leaves: Basal, usually without stipules, palmately and deeply 3-lobed, the lobes lobed; basal leaves appearing only after flowering.
Flowers: White sometimes tinged pinked, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, solitary, 2-4 cm across; sepals large and petal-like, free, 6-7, narrowly oblong, hairless; petals absent; stamens numerous, indefinite and free; ovary superior.
Fruits: A cluster of achenes.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, sometimes in open grassland or on limestone pavement. Distribution: Frequent in the Burren and locally elsewhere, rare in most exposed areas.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No