Sunday 19 May Wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) What’s the World’s
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out more - Print factsheet Wood anemone description Wood anemone
is an attractive plant that often indicates the site of old
woodland. Each stem has a single, white, star-shaped flower,
often flushed with pink or purple. Halfway up the hairless
flower stem grows a whorl of stalked, palm-shaped leaves and
leave stems grow from the root. - Size: 5 – 30 cm Wood anemone
biology Wood anemones are one of the first spring flowers, their
cheerful white stars appearing in March and April. They are
perennials and, as their seed is rarely viable in Britain, they
spread by means of underground roots. However, they do not
advance their carpet quickly, and colonies of anemones can often
be found in the same spot within a wood, century after century.
Bradfield Wood in Suffolk has large carpets of wood anemones,
and the fact that these woods have a history of traditional
management reaching back to