Anemone ranunculoides

Wood Ginger is an absolutely charming spring-blooming woodlander. Masses of adorable buttercup-like (the Latin 'ranunculoides' actually translates to 'looks like a buttercup') flowers smother the low mat of ferny foliage from April to May.

Can be grown in full sun, dry shade, or even in a rockery, but it will go summer dormant. Foliage remains throughout summer only if grown in moisture-retentive, humus-rich, fertile soil in part shade.

Distinctions: Winner of an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticulture Society.

Zones: 3 to 9

Family: Ranunculaceae

Type: Perennial

Height: 4 to 8 in.

Spread: 4 to 8 in.

Exposure: part-shade, shade, bright full shade

Soil Conditions: Moist, average, humus rich, fertile

Bloom Time: April to May

Bloom Color: Yellow

Native Range: Europe

Image Credits:

Image 1 (bloom) Klaus Selle MA, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Image 2 (form) Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons