Woodland Trust

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Is spring late where you live? Take a walk in the woods and see what you can find to record

Wood anemone. Peter Paicewood anemone

Anemone nemorosa

  • One of the earliest and prettiest of all woodland flowers
     
  • It is a perennial
     
  • Leaves spring from the base
     
  • Sometimes forms a carpet in woods
     
  • Flowers are usually white, but sometimes pinkish.
     

Where foundrecord

Woods, hedgerows and upland meadows.
 

When to look for

  • Flowers in March-May