Anemone quinquefoliaL.

wood anemone

WFO wfo-0000535705 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. a Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205038031
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Tom Scavo
fig. b Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203358971
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. c Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204365858
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202797028
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Ethan Rose
fig. e Ethan Rose, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205033072
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. f Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204346190
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. g Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201077796
Anemone quinquefolia, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. h Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201215897

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Flowering n = 7,261 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 7,261 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Anemonanthea quinquefolia (L.) Nieuwl.
  • Anemone nemorosa f. glabriuscula G.Lawson
  • Anemone nemorosa f. nitida G.Lawson
  • Anemone nemorosa f. quinquefolia (L.) G.Lawson
  • Anemone nemorosa f. trifoliata Ulbr.
  • Anemone nemorosa subsp. americana Ulbr.
  • Anemone nemorosa var. bifolia (Farw.) B.Boivin
  • Anemone nemorosa var. quinquefolia (L.) Pursh
  • Anemone nemorosa var. quinquefolia Ulbr.
  • Anemone pedata Raf.
  • Anemone quinquefolia f. rubra J.W.Moore
  • Anemone quinquefolia var. bifolia A.E.Murray
  • Anemone quinquefolia var. bifolia Farw.
  • Anemone quinquefolia var. interior Fernald
  • Anemone quinquefolia var. quinquefolia
  • Anemonoides quinquefolia (L.) Holub
  • Nemorosa quinquefolia (L.) Nieuwl.
  • Nemorsoa quinquefolia (L.) Nieuwl.

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.

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