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Anemone blanda Schott & Kotschy

Balkan Anemone, Grecian Windflower, Greek Thimbleweed, Greek anemone

Climate known 17 photographs
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Summary

Anemonoides blanda, syn. Anemone blanda, the Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower, or winter windflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The species is native to southeastern Europe and the Middle East. The specific epithet blanda means "mild" or "charming". The genus name is derived from the Greek word anemos, or wind.

Text from Wikipedia, “Anemonoides blanda”, 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
Schott & Kotschy
Native to
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece +8
Wild records
197 in range· 69 open

At a glance

Warmest month
26°C
Aug, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
780mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Dec 118 mm (CHELSA)
Light
10–45DLI
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: a winter growing season, October to April in the northern hemisphere (October to April at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 780 mm a year, wettest December at 118 mm, driest July at 29 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 10 to 45 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -10.4 °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 apennina Boiss.; Anemone apennina subsp. blanda (Schott & Kotschy) Hayek; Anemone apennina subsp. blanda (Schott & Kotschy) Nyman; Anemone blanda subsp. atrocoerulea Tubergen; Anemone blanda subsp. scythinica Tubergen and 1 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to April in the northern hemisphere (October to April at the habitat, northern).

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

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (585 mm of 780 mm) falls in October to April, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 7.1 °C against a yearly mean of 12.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: April to October.

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 780 mm a year, wettest December at 118 mm, driest July at 29 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

780 mm a year at the habitat, 585 mm of it October to April. Wettest month December at 118 mm, driest July at 29 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 579 mm to 1312 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: 10 to 45 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 10 to 45 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 8, the highest 90th-percentile month 50).

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 -10.4 °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 -10.4 °C, the absolute minimum -19.6 °C, about 69 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -0.7 °C in February (across the envelope cells -4.5 °C to 7.7 °C), warmest day 26.3 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -10.4 °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: 53 to 64% 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 6 °C in Jan to 26 °C in Aug; mean night from -1 °C in Feb to 18 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Jan to Mar, is the three months around the coldest night. 780 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 120 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -19.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.3 °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°40°frost34.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)-19.6° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 10–45RH 53–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 120 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 °C6 / 3–117 / 3–1110 / 7–1314 / 11–1719 / 16–2223 / 20–2726 / 23–2926 / 23–2922 / 19–2517 / 14–2112 / 9–167 / 4–13
Night °C-1 / -4–8-1 / -5–82 / -2–96 / 2–1111 / 7–1615 / 10–2018 / 13–2218 / 13–2214 / 10–2010 / 6–175 / 1–131 / -2–10
Rain mm97 / 50–22579 / 48–16573 / 53–12255 / 37–8953 / 21–8241 / 6–7629 / 4–6630 / 4–5942 / 15–7863 / 44–126100 / 69–207118 / 79–250
DLI13 / 9–1618 / 15–2226 / 23–3134 / 31–3941 / 37–4545 / 41–5045 / 42–5040 / 37–4531 / 28–3621 / 18–2613 / 11–1810 / 8–14
RH %63 / 60–6762 / 59–6460 / 58–6358 / 54–6256 / 51–6154 / 48–6253 / 47–5854 / 48–5757 / 52–5960 / 55–6262 / 58–6564 / 60–67

Each figure is the median across the 120 grid cells holding the 193 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 903:4348 (44.825, 37.425). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -19.6 °C, 1st-percentile night -10.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.3 °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 120 distinct grid cells holding the 193 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 903:4348 (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 45.00_37.500, lapse-corrected +85 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 148 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.
NativeAlbania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Turkey· introduced: Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker44.663, 37.995 · in the densest population, 84 records (43% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 197 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 69 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 1281 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 4 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 197 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: Ian Wolfe, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF; Alexander Wieser, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF; Сергей Крыленко, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Peter Quakenbush, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

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 blanda, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Patterns of heterochromatin distribution in plant chromosomes
Marcelo Guerra (2000) · Genetics and Molecular Biology
More is less: net gain in species richness, but biotic homogenization over 140 years
Tora Finderup Nielsen, Kaj Sand‐Jensen, María Dornelas, Hans Henrik Bruun (2019) · Ecology Letters
A second update to the checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy
Gabriele Galasso, Fabio Conti, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Alessandro Alessandrini (2024) · Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology
Systematic Techniques for the Recognition of Anopheles Species Complexes
Wej Choochote, Atiporn Saeung (2013) · InTech eBooks

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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wikipedia answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped
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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 50 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.