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Spent flowers look cool, albeit not much like thimbles in my book. Common name thimbleweed Family ranunculaceae Life cycle perennial Flowers greenish white (June) Light sun-part shade Wildflower, whose flowers aren't nearly as showy as those of most other anemones I've grown. Still, I like this plant - fairly tidy and unassuming, and the post-flowering stages are interesting. There were nice purple undersides of leaves on my seedling plant, but I haven't noticed that feature on mature plants.

This is another one of those plants that brings a smile to my face in the earliest weeks in the garden season – not for its flowers, which are still a few months away, but for its vigorous outcropping of tidy leaves, attractively cut with just a hint of purple.

We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston.

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Seed-starting details for this plant

2007. Seed from '06 trade. Baggy 70F (3w) - 35F (8w) - 70F (29d; 5%G, 11d) - 70F with light (no further G)
2008. Seed from '06 trade. Baggy 70F (2%G, 25d) - 35F (4w) - 70F (19d; no further G)
2013. Seed from '12 garden. Baggy 70F (5w) - 35F (6w) - 70F (16d; no G)

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