• Anemone ranunculoides (wood ginger) in bloom
  • Anemone ranunculoides (wood ginger) single flower
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Anemone ranunculoides | wood ginger

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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

Special Characteristics
  • Deer-resistant
  • Clay tolerant
  • Juglone tolerant
  • Rabbit resistant
  • Snail Resistant
image credits

Image 1 (bloom) Klaus Selle MA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Image 2 (form) Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Anemone ranunculoides (wood ginger) in bloom
Anemone ranunculoides (wood ginger) single flower

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