Talk:Anemone

Clarifications

Is "classic" really necessary or useful in the taxobox caption? Is it a peacock term for "wild-type"?

The sentence fragment beginning "terminal inflorescences" needs to be clarified. As it stands, it says the flowers (not the inflorescences or the plants) are 60 cm tall, and the height but not the type of inflorescence depends on the species. Also, it's not clear whether solitary flowers are borne terminally, or just cymes and umbels are. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:15, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Text pushed down.

In my browser, the text of the article is pushed way down below the fold. Can someone please fix this? Cheers! bd2412 T 20:18, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Semitic language?!

The name comes from a Semitic language? What rubbish. The name obviously comes from the anemoi in Greek mythology, who were the gods of the wind. I'm going to remove that sentence.VenomousConcept (talk) 11:58, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

This change was reverted in 2012 by someone noting that we would in fact need to check the etymological dictionary that was cited as the source of the Semitic language etymology, but then the sentence was deleted again (by a user identified only by IP address, who notes that it's a dictionary of Greek etymology). Anyway, I checked the dictionary (and translated from the French) https://archive.org/details/Dictionnaire-Etymologique-Grec/page/n99/mode/2up?q=anemone, and in fact it notes that anemoi may indeed be a folk etymology, and that it might instead come from a Semitic language. The Anemone coronaria article already included a reference, The History of Syria which I've added to this article as well, noting that Adonis is also called Nea'man or Nu'man in Phoenician and Arabic and that the flower is known as an-nu-man in Arabic and that that may be the source of the name, rather than referring to daughter of the winds or wind gods. Anyway, an interesting case that perhaps we should read references carefully rather than removing them because we assume an etymology is obvious. Npdoty (talk) 05:28, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Pulsatilla

Can anyone verify if the genus Pulsatilla is typically merged into Anemone in whatever is the latest classification system? — Eru·tuon 02:33, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Also, the Pulsatilla patens article needs more information on subspecies and color forms. Any references relating to the species would be appreciated. See my post on the talk page. — Eru·tuon 02:44, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

The Cultivation section's problems -- Peacock/puffery, overgeneralization, et cetera

The section is rife with peacock/puffery. Beyond that issue... not all anemones are the same plant. Blanda, for instance, is said by some sources to prefer sandy soil, not a manure-rich loam. Blanda also, from the sources I've seen, has corms, not tubers or rhizomes. The section, though refers to "anemones/anemone" as if they all have tubers and like loamy manure-rich soil, as well as in terms of other claims. As for the claim that they're easily grown from seed... Ranunculaceae species are known for having difficult seeds when they're not quickly planted upon gathering from the parent plant. Some die quickly (e.g. Adonis) while others go into complex dormancy. Some enter complex dormancy and tend to die as well. This is why some seed companies only sell species like Aconitum, Pasque flower, and Anemonopsis in moist packing. As for the acidic soil preference claim, this source, which was apparently written by a commercial cultivator, says at least some anemones prefer lime/basic soil. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.193.114 (talk) 08:30, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Additional ambiguity ("light soil")... Too vague... not difficult to create or find light soils that they won't grow well in at all. Some sources also say clay content improves bloom quality, as with tulips. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.193.114 (talk) 08:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

This poppy like flower is wild all over

My garden literally 1000s - guessing it’s wild - just bloomed in early September in the UK - how do I upload a photo WikiBrogan (talk) 10:04, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Nicholas Culpepper

Nicholas Culpepper[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windflower] used the word ‘Anemone’ before Linnaeus did and probably other people borrowed the word from the Latin too, so we should say that the word ‘Anemone’ for this plant was popularised by Linnaeus but not that it was coined by him. Overlordnat1 (talk) 07:35, 7 October 2023 (UTC)