(Ranunculaceae), new for the Italian flora".
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In the wild the flowers are usually white but may be pinkish, lilac or blue, and often have a darker tint on the backs of the tepals. The flowers are 2 centimetres (0.8 in) diameter, with six or seven (and on rare occasions eight to ten) tepals (petal-like segments) with many stamens. The flowers are solitary, held above the foliage on short stems, with a whorl of three palmate or palmately-lobed leaflike bracts beneath. Clumps creep slowly to form a groundcover, studded with star shaped flowers. The plants start blooming in spring, March to May in the British Isles : 28 soon after the foliage emerges from the ground. Native throughout northern Europe, the Wood Anemone is a charming plant for the early spring garden. There are many fine cultivated forms of Anemone nemorosa, and all look breathtaking if planted in drifts under shrubs and trees or naturalised in part of a lawn. : 106 They grow from underground root-like stems called rhizomes and die back down by mid summer (summer dormant). This native British wildflower, the star of many woodlands in spring, is just as charming when grown in gardens. The compound basal leaves are palmate or ternate (divided into three lobes). Anemone are herbaceous perennials with fibrous, rhizomatous or tuberous rootstocks, palmately lobed leaves and saucer-shaped, usually 5-petalled flowers.
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Anemonoides nemorosa is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant less than 30 centimetres (12 in) in height.