Catalog Description
Small rock garden perennial in purple. Produces a dense ground hugging mound of feathery dark green foliage. Large urn-shaped flowers about 3 inches wide in violet purple with contrasting bright yellow centers. Used as single specimens or in groups for a more visible color mass. Demands well drained soils and alpine-like conditions. Beautiful naturalized or in a more formal border. Hardy herbaceous perennial. Full sun or part shade. Slow growing 6 to 12 inches tall, spreading about a foot wide. Division. |
Design Ideas
An exceptional perennial for naturalizing and wild gardens. Grow in meadows and grasslands with non-invasive grasses. Spot into rock gardens for transient spring color. May be used in perennial borders with well drained slightly alkaline soils. |
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Average Landscape Size
Slow growing 6 to 12 inches tall, spreading about a foot wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Large violet-purple flowers with contrasting yellow centers top the dense ground hugging mound of feathery dark green foliage. Use as a single specimen or in groups for a color mass. Demands well drained soils - great for rock gardens. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Remove old flowers to prolong flowering. Cut back to the ground at the end of the season. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Slow Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Mounding |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 8 (>90 to 120 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 8 (10 to 20 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 3 (-40 to -30 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full to partial sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Large urn-shaped blooms up to 3 inches wide in violet-purple with bright yellow centers
| Flower Color |
| Purple |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Spring. |
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Propagation
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Attributes
Cottage Garden Plant
Deer Resistant
Flowers for Cutting
Foliage Poisonous
Fruit Poisonous
Naturalizes Well
Prairie Garden
Rock Garden Plant
Showy Flowers
Summer Flowering
Tolerates Alkaline Soil
Tolerates Poor Soils |
Foliage
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Plant Lore
All parts of this plant are highly toxic and may be ingested transdermally through direct handling. Although it shares an extensive medicinal history, anemone should be considered poisonous. |
Plant History
Anemones are counted in the Ranunculaceae, a genus that contains about 120 species from around the world in the north temperate zone. It was named for a mythological Greek goddess. Unlike the intensely bred Japanese forms, this and another European, A. sylvestris, remain close to their ancient forms. |
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