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Anemone sylvestris L.

Großes Windröschen (DE), Snowdrop Anemone, da hua yin lian hua, snowdrop windflower

Climate known 9 photographs
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Summary

Anemonoides sylvestris, known as snowdrop anemone or snowdrop windflower, is a perennial plant flowering in spring, native to meadows and dry deciduous woodlands of central and western Europe and temperate Asia. It forms spreading patches, sometimes aggressively spreading.

Text from Wikipedia, “Anemonoides sylvestris”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Anemone

Anemone is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants of the genus are commonly called windflowers. They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all regions except Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Anemone”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Sweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia +35
Wild records
1672 in range· 947 open

At a glance

Warmest month
23°C
Jul, mean day; nights 14 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
651mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 77 mm (CHELSA)
Light
4–36DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 651 mm a year, wettest July at 77 mm, driest February at 36 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -13.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Anemone alba Juss.; Anemone hirsuta Gilib.; Anemone pratensis Pall.; Anemone pratensis Pall. ex Pritz.; Anemone sordida Schur and 18 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (492 mm of 651 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 21.2 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to June.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 651 mm a year, wettest July at 77 mm, driest February at 36 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

651 mm a year at the habitat, 492 mm of it May to December. Wettest month July at 77 mm, driest February at 36 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 478 mm to 897 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 1, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -13.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -13.3 °C, the absolute minimum -25.7 °C, about 106 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 25.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -5.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells -19.1 °C to -1.0 °C), warmest day 23.0 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -13.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from -0 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Jul; mean night from -5 °C in Jan to 14 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 651 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 1209 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -25.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 25.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°frost25.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)-25.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100mm rainDLI 4–36RH 58–69 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 1209 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C-0 / -12–41 / -10–56 / -2–1012 / 7–1417 / 13–1921 / 18–2323 / 21–2522 / 19–2417 / 14–2012 / 6–155 / -4–81 / -10–5
Night °C-5 / -19–-1-5 / -18–-1-2 / -11–23 / -3–58 / 4–912 / 10–1314 / 13–1613 / 11–1510 / 6–115 / -1–80 / -10–3-4 / -17–0
Rain mm44 / 22–7636 / 17–6138 / 19–7041 / 27–5859 / 36–8371 / 55–9177 / 61–9968 / 53–9059 / 46–7456 / 34–8252 / 32–7750 / 27–85
DLI6 / 3–811 / 7–1419 / 15–2228 / 26–3034 / 33–3736 / 34–3935 / 33–3729 / 26–3120 / 16–2312 / 8–156 / 3–84 / 1–6
RH %68 / 65–7366 / 63–7162 / 59–6558 / 56–6158 / 53–6059 / 55–6159 / 56–6159 / 56–6261 / 58–6364 / 60–6768 / 64–7069 / 66–72

Each figure is the median across the 1209 grid cells holding the 1491 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 632:4054 (58.375, 22.725). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -25.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -13.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 25.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 1209 distinct grid cells holding the 1491 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 632:4054 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 58.50_22.500, lapse-corrected +5 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 16 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeSweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Amur, Primorye, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, Tibet, Mongolia· introduced: Denmark, Finland, Norway
Extinct inBelgium· recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker50.07, 10.37 · in the densest population, 354 records (21% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1672 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 947 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 109 km away. 29 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 181 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1672 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: Roman A. Lagazyuk (Роман А. Лагазюк), CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Aurelijus Narbutas, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Oleg Kosterin, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Сергей, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Anemone sylvestris, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Wild and native plants and mushrooms sold in the open-air markets of south-eastern Poland
Renata Kasper-Pakosz, Marcin Pietras, Łukasz Łuczaj (2016) · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities
Leen Depauw, Michael P. Perring, Dries Landuyt, Sybryn L. Maes (2019) · Journal of Ecology
Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla
Zoltán Bátori, András Vojtkó, István Maák, Gábor Lőrinczi (2019) · Scientific Reports
The Impact of Timing on Bidding Behavior in Procurement Auctions of Contracts with Private Costs
Dakshina G. De Silva, Georgia Kosmopoulou, Beatrice Pagel, Ronald Peeters (2012) · Review of Industrial Organization
How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe
László Erdős, Péter Török, Joseph W. Veldman, Zoltán Bátori (2022) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Statistical determination of diagnostic, constant and dominant species of the higher vegetation units of Poland
Zygmunt Kącki, M. Czarniecka, Grzegorz Swacha (2014) · Monographiae Botanicae
Prodromus der Pflanzengesellschaften Sachsen-Anhalts
Rudolf Schubert (2001) · Mitteilungen zur floristischen Kartierung in Sachsen-Anhalt
The motivations for visiting geosites: the case of Crystal Cave, Western Australia.
Mamoon Allan, Ross Dowling, Dale Sanders (2015) · Australasian Journal of Paramedicine
Anthropogenic disturbances alter the conservation value of karst dolines
Zoltán Bátori, András Vojtkó, Gunnar Keppel, Csaba Tölgyesi (2019) · Biodiversity and Conservation
In vivo induction and characterization of polyploids in gerbera daisy
Krishna Bhattarai, Abdul Kareem, Zhanao Deng (2021) · Scientia Horticulturae

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Anemone 4 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 114 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.