Buttercup Family [Ranunculaceae] |
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2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A garden plant which escapes into the wild occasionally and grows to 30cm tall. |
14th April 2014, a garden, Marple, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
A garden plant which escapes into the wild occasionally and grows to 30cm tall. |
2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Like Blue Anemone(Anemone appenina) but has narrower petals (actually sepals) that are not hairy underneath. |
2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The stems are deep purple and hairy. |
2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Both white and pink flowers can sometimes be found. Leaves much like those of Wood Anemone but less pointed. |
2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
There are numerous stamens within, each terminating in pale-green flattened, oval anthers. |
2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The anthers have cream coloured pollen around the edges. In the very centre is a large pale green ovary that will bear the seeds. |
11th April 2014, a garden, Hollingworth, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A less insect-eaten specimen. |
11th April 2014, a garden, Hollingworth, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The anthers in close-up with pollen scattered about the flower. Petals have several darker longitudinal veins. |
2nd April 2014, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Adlington, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves trefoil(ish) with optional two much shorter outer lobes. These are new leaves on the as yet un-opened flower. |
11th April 2014, a garden, Hollingworth, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The flower apparently lacks sepals, but the blue 'petals' are in fact the sepals. Rear of 'petals' hairless, but stem hairy. |
14th April 2014, a garden, Marple, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
It may look as if the leaves are 5-lobed, but the smallest apparent 'leaves' are actually con-joined to the the adjacent, albeit, only just. Un-opened flower buds droop groundwards and appear yellow-green. There are many cultivars of Blue Anemone, your Author does not know if any of these are. |
Not to be semantically confused with :
Easily mis-identified as : Many similarities to : Wood Anemone (Anemone nemerosa) but that has white flowers (sometimes suffused with a pale violet) and with cut trefoil leaves that are more pointed.
Superficial resemblance to : Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) [which is in the same Buttercup Family (Ranunculaceae)] but that, like
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Anemone | apennina | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Ranunculaceae |
Anemone (Anemones) |
Buttercup Family [Ranunculaceae] |