Wood Anemone
Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa
A hairless plant with rhizomes - it is usually about 20 cm in height. Basal leaves usually appearing after the flower. Flowers are white, often flushed with pink or blue outside, solitary half nodding or erect and 20 to 40 mm across.
Indicator Species - Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
Woodland, woodland rides or clearings, copses.
March to May.
Perennial.
Common throughout Britain.
Common in suitable areas of Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 137 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
07 April 2015
Graham Calow
Burbage Common and Woods
07 April 2015
David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR
16 April 2011
David Nicholls
Burroughs Wood
28 April 2013 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4605 9415 (taken 26.4.2006).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
26 April 2006
AJ Cann
Cloud Wood
02 April 2017
 Freeholt Wood Sapcote SP 4605 9415 (taken 26.4.2006).JPG)
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Anemone Smut
Anemone Smut (Urocystis anemones) affects various members of the anemone family especially Wood Anemone, causing blister like swellings beneath the epidermis which rupture to produce blackish spores.