Common name: Snowdrop Anemone, Snowdrop windflower
Botanical name: Anemone sylvestris Family: Ranunculaceae (buttercup family)
Snowdrop anemone is native to the Caucasus region.
Fragrant flowers are white cups with yellow stamens, about 1.5-2 in wide,
delicate with five round petals each, occurring singly on twelve
or eighteen inch tall wiry stems.
The flowers flutter butterfly-like in the slightest breeze, moving above the
eight to ten inch high deeply lobed & dense foliage.
It blooms mainly in mid-spring, but can rebloom during summer if not
heat-exhausted. It requires almost no attention other than to be kept moist.
| Photographed in Govindghat,
Uttaranchal. |
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aturalized