Anemone nemorosa is a beautiful, early-spring flowering plant in the genus Anemone in the family Ranunculaceae. Since the star-shaped blossoms are usually slender-stalked and tremble in the breeze, they have been called ‘wind flowers’.
This name, directly related to its botanical name, is derived from the Greek. Greek legend says that Anemos, the Wind, sends his namesakes the Anemones, in the earliest spring days as the heralds of his coming. The second part of the name nemorosa refers to its woodland habitats and derives from the Latin ‘nemorosus‘, meaning ‘wooded or covered with trees’.