<p>{Family: Ranunculaceae} A woodland plant with star or bowl shaped flowers. From Canada and northern USA this slender, fibrous-rooted species grows up to 24in (60cm) high. Its leaves are deeply divided with numerous segments coated in silky hairs, and with 2 or 3 smallish, white to cream, rarely red, flowers per stem.</p><p>Propagate from seed or divide established clumps in early winter when the plant is dormant.</p><p>Anemones have been in cultivation since the early 17th century in Holland and England. Anemone means windflower, or Daughter of the Wind, because</p>