Wood Anemone | Hainault Forest

Wood Anemone

Anemone nemorosa

The Wood Anemone is a short perennial with unbranched stems. The lobed leaves grow in whorls and the flowers grow singly. The flowers have 5-9 white sepals which are tinged pink on the underside. There are no petals. This patch is now struggling to survive near the Retreat Path, the only place the website has recorded it growing in Hainault Forest. Now only about half-a-metre square where it once covered a much larger area.