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Anemone ranunculoides

Yellow Anemone · Yellow Woodland Anemone · Yellow Woodland Thimbleweed

Family RanunculaceaeGenus Anemone

A spreading carpet of deeply cut green leaves studded with small yellow five-petalled flowers
The whole plantBogdanCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
rhizomatous geophytePlants of the World Online
Habit
Perennial, Forb/herbPLANTS Database
Flower
YellowRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • The yellow wood anemone, now Anemonoides ranunculoides, is popular with rock and alpine gardeners and holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit, as does its double form 'Pleniflora'. Wikipedia: Anemonoides ranunculoides

Two sources report two treatments between them. Both are shown.

Protocol 1

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around May 15, 2027 for a May 3 last frost. Too late for spring 2027 — that needed starting on May 14, 2026.

  1. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

  2. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  3. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

  4. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  5. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

  6. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

    6 germinated in this phase.

Steps after step 4 run on after germination.

about 9 months from start to step 4. Germination happens during step 4, in 56 days.

12% germination in 56 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Anemone p. 13Public domain
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Anemone (Ranunculaceae). . ' A. ranunculoides germ. 70D-40-70D-40(12% in 8th w)-70D-40(6%) and 25% at 40 after 2 y of alternating 3 m cycles starting at 40. This is similar to
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Anemone p. 13. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

Protocol 2

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1996

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around May 22, 2027 for a May 3 last frost. Too late for spring 2027 — that needed starting on May 21, 2026.

  1. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C

  2. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  3. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C

  4. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  5. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  6. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C

    1/17 germinated in this phase.

Steps after step 4 run on after germination.

about 9 months from start to step 4. Germination happens during step 4, in 49 days.

12% germination in 49 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1996 · 1st Supplement, Anemone p. 20Public domain
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Anemone (Ranunculaceae). A. ranunculoides germ. 70-40-70-40(2/17 in 7th w)-40-70(1/17) and none in under all other conditions. A radicle developed at 40. A leaf emerged on a shift to 70.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 1st Supplement, 1st Supplement, Anemone p. 20. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

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