The Canada Anemone, also known as Canada windflower (Anemone canadensis) is a native Maryland wildflower.  Spreading by rhizomes, it naturalizes easily and is widely used in Glenstone's plantings. Growing one to two feet tall with large, deeply lobed leaves, it makes for an ideal ground cover which thrives in moist rich soils in the sun or part-shade. Around April, it produces tall stems with two-inch flowers which tend to blow gently in the wind. This is where its common name of “windflower” comes from. It does not make nectar, but it produces a large amount of pollen. This is important because this pollen provides pollinators with the protein they need in early spring. It a host plant for the veiled ear moth (Loscopia velata) and the one-lined sparganothis moth (Sparganothis unifasciana), both Maryland natives. 

–Tim Curley