Anemonastrum sibiricum(L.) Holub

WFO wfo-0000535027 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Maria Khoreva
fig. a Maria Khoreva, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202593387
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158415729
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Roger Rittmaster
fig. c Roger Rittmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144685748
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. d Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144045519
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. e Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140083301
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. f Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138891304
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Erin McKittrick
fig. g Erin McKittrick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134457834
Anemonastrum sibiricum, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. h Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132911283

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Anemonastrum sibiricum is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tuva, Yakutiya, Alaska, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKamchatkaKhabarovskMagadanMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTuvaYakutiyaAlaskaBritish ColumbiaNorthwest TerritoriesYukon
Native distribution of Anemonastrum sibiricum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
British Columbia BRC
Northwest Territories NWT
Yukon YUK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 912 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -28.8 °C -18.9 °C -3.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 11.2 °C 14.2 °C 18.2 °C
Annual rainfall 500 mm 1,036 mm 4,240 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 43 mm 123 mm 573 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 912 research-grade observations of Anemonastrum sibiricum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anemonastrum narcissiflorum subsp. sibiricum (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Anemone narcissiflora subsp. interior Hultén
  • Anemone narcissiflora subsp. sibirica (L.) Hultén
  • Anemone narcissiflora var. alaskana (Hultén) B.Boivin
  • Anemone narcissiflora var. interior (Hultén) B.Boivin
  • Anemone narcissiflora var. sibirica (L.) Tamura
  • Anemone narcissiflora var. uniflora Eastw.
  • Anemone sibirica L.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.