13/52 Wood Anemone Flower
Common Name: Wood Anemone
Scientific Name: "Anemone nemorosa"
Irish Name: Lus na gaoithe (Translation "windflower")
Forming a carpet of green with delicate, white flowers, this perennial wildflower is an early flowering plant which blossoms from March to May. The flowers (2-4cm) have 6-12 hairless sepals which resemble petals, usually white but with a hint of pink beneath. At their centre are very many yellow stamens. They are borne solitarily on long, thin stalks and the leaves are deeply lobed, basal except for a whorl of 3 on the flower stems. This is a plant of deciduous woodlands, flowering before the leaves of the trees above have emerged. It also grows in heather and bracken-covered areas. It is a native plant belonging to the Ranunculaceae family.
(Taken from: www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=321)
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Wood anemone is one of our first spring flowers. Like many of our native wildflowers, it is also known by many other names: moonflower, wood crowfoot and ‘windflower’, to name a few.
Windflower is directly related to its botanical name derived from the Greek. Greek legend says that Anemos, the Wind, sends his namesakes the Anemones, in the earliest spring days as the heralds of his coming. Other sources claim that the flowers only opened when the wind blew. The second part of the name, nemorosa, refers to its woodland habitats and derives from the Latin ‘nemorosus‘ meaning ‘wooded or covered with trees’.
(Taken from: www.conservationhandbooks.com/wildflowers/wood-anemone/)
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This photograph was taken in Milltown Woods, Lurganboy, Co Leitrim, Ireland,
13/52 Wood Anemone Flower
Common Name: Wood Anemone
Scientific Name: "Anemone nemorosa"
Irish Name: Lus na gaoithe (Translation "windflower")
Forming a carpet of green with delicate, white flowers, this perennial wildflower is an early flowering plant which blossoms from March to May. The flowers (2-4cm) have 6-12 hairless sepals which resemble petals, usually white but with a hint of pink beneath. At their centre are very many yellow stamens. They are borne solitarily on long, thin stalks and the leaves are deeply lobed, basal except for a whorl of 3 on the flower stems. This is a plant of deciduous woodlands, flowering before the leaves of the trees above have emerged. It also grows in heather and bracken-covered areas. It is a native plant belonging to the Ranunculaceae family.
(Taken from: www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=321)
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Wood anemone is one of our first spring flowers. Like many of our native wildflowers, it is also known by many other names: moonflower, wood crowfoot and ‘windflower’, to name a few.
Windflower is directly related to its botanical name derived from the Greek. Greek legend says that Anemos, the Wind, sends his namesakes the Anemones, in the earliest spring days as the heralds of his coming. Other sources claim that the flowers only opened when the wind blew. The second part of the name, nemorosa, refers to its woodland habitats and derives from the Latin ‘nemorosus‘ meaning ‘wooded or covered with trees’.
(Taken from: www.conservationhandbooks.com/wildflowers/wood-anemone/)
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This photograph was taken in Milltown Woods, Lurganboy, Co Leitrim, Ireland,