Buy Anemone nemerosa 'Virescens'

Lovely and unusual spring ephemeral, roaring forth in late winter and early spring with a ground covering carpet of ferny foliage 4"- 6” tall decorated with subtle green moppy flowers, frequently with some burgundy at the centers, just for fun! Shaded woodland sites suit it best; decent soil, moist during growth, goes dormant by mid-summer.

Anemone nemorosa is a charming woodland ground cover that produces cute little one inch wide flowers in early spring above nicely dissected foliage. 'Virescens' is a strange form where the flowers are replaced by highly dissected, green, leaf-like structures making an intricate rosette sometimes centred with a hint of blue and white. Known as wood anemone or windflower, plant them around dark flowered hellebores to help show them off against the dark soil or as an ephemeral ground cover beneath deciduous trees and shrubs. They will go dormant in mid to late summer.