Anemone canadensis - Meadow Anemone

🌿Beautiful, beneficial bug magnets!🧲

Charming US Native perennial plants with adorable 2-3" white flowers on wirey stems that float above graceful foliage. However, they aren't just pretty additions to the garden, they can attract many helpful beneficial bugs with their copious amounts of super-nutritious pollen! Low maintenance moisture-lovers, they usually flower in their first or second year, between spring and summer. When happy with their conditions, they may spread via underground rhizomes.

In the wild, they are found in moist forests, meadows, flood plains, and along the edges of rivers. They are lovely members of the buttercup, or Ranunculaceae family. Gorgeous massed, and can help stabilize moist slopes.

Use these beauties in cottage gardens, moist meadows, moon gardens, native gardens, pollinator gardens, and more.

🪰Attract beneficial insects to the garden with their nutritious pollen, including Orius insidiosus (which eat thrips!!) and Empididae (which eat black flies and midges!). They also attract Flower flies or Hover flies (Syrphidae), which do double duty: their larvae devour aphids (!!), and as adults, they act as pollinators in the garden. Additionally, Anemone canadensis are known for attracting Long-horn beetles, that are excellent for recycling old plant material. They will also help pollinate flowers in the garden.

🐝Bees! These plants provide nutritious pollen to multiple native bees: Mining Bees, Yellow-faced Bees, Carpenter Bees, and Sweat Bees. 

🦋Host plants for 2 species of Lepidoptera here in NC - Reddish Speckled Dart (Cerastis tenebrifera), and Veiled Ear Moth (Loscopia velata). Their flowers do not have any nectar. 

🦌Deer and Rabbit resistant.

🌳Juglone resistant - these plants can be planted under Black Walnut trees.

💧Moisture lovers. Plant these in naturally wetter areas of your garden.

1-2'T x 2-2.5'W.

Full sun (with sufficient moisture) to partial shade.

Zones 3-8, cold hardy down to -40F.

💚Plant Nerd: According to the Flora of the Southeastern United States from the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Anemone canadensis did historically exist in Western North Carolina and the general southern Appalachian mountain region. At this point, these plants are rare in Virginia, and are usually found in New England and northern Midwestern states.

🌼Herbal Medicine: These plants have a long history of medicinal uses by Native American tribes. The roots contain a natural substance called anemonin, that is believed to act as an antiseptic.

🌿What's in a name? About a decade ago, these plants offically lost their name of Anemone and are now considered - by some - to be called Anemonastrum canadensis. However, most botancial resources still refer to them as Anemone canadensis. These plants also have multiple common names, including Canada Anemone, Meadow Anemone, Roundleaf Anemone, and Windflower.