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Japanese anemone is a common name for Eriocapitella japonica, a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The common name Japanese anemone is also used for several other species of flowering plants in the genus Eriocapitella, including: Eriocapitella hupehensis; Eriocapitella × hybrida, the Japanese anemone hybrid; Eriocapitella ...
After finding this form in a Shanghai graveyard in 1843, the plant explorer Robert Fortune sent it home to England where it became known as E. japonica, the Japanese anemone. European horticulturists crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia to produce cultivars of the artificial hybrid E. × hybrida .
Together with several closely related species and hybrids between these species, in horticulture these plants are often referred to as Japanese anemones. [ 2 ] The specific epithet hupehensis , which means "from Hupeh (Hupei, Hubei ) province, China", [ 3 ] refers to a region where the species is known to occur.
Eriocapitella is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.Plants of the genus are native to Asia. [1] The generic name Eriocapitella roughly translates to "growing in a small woolly head", which refers to the hairy ovary and fruit of some members of the genus.
Anemone (/ ə ˈ n ɛ m ə n iː /) is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.Plants of the genus are commonly called windflowers. [2] They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all regions except Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. [1]
Eriocapitella × hybrida along with four other taxa (E. hupehensis, E. japonica, E. tomentosa, and E. vitifolia) are known as fall-blooming anemones. [9] The bloom period depends on the particular cultivar and location, but at Longwood Gardens for example, E. × hybrida 'Königin Charlotte' bloomed from mid September to early November.
Plants of the genus are native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, on the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia. [1] The generic name Anemonoides means "anemone-like", [ 2 ] a reminder that many of the species were formerly included within the plant genus Anemone .
Anemonoides nemorosa (syn. Anemone nemorosa), the wood anemone, is an early-spring flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe. [1] Other common names include windflower, European thimbleweed, [2] and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of the leaves. [3] It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing 5–15 cm (2 ...