Canada Anemone

Anemonastrum canadense

Pollinator plant

Growing it

When	Flowers May to July; fruits July to August
Type	groundcover
Sun	Full sun, partial shade
Water	Low, medium
Soil	pH 5.5–7.5
Hardiness	zone 2–6
Mature height	0.6 m
Mature spread	0.75 m
Spacing	0.5 m
Years to maturity	2
Bloom	May–Jul
Flower colour	White read from a published flora
In bloom	May June July
Fruit	Jul–Aug
Native to	AB, SK

lobed leaves about 8 cm long

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

369 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 100 herbarium specimens and 1,133 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 1356 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 479 records, high confidence
Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 257 records, high confidence
Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 155 records, high confidence
Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 107 records, high confidence
Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 51 records, high confidence
Wabasca Lowland north AB: 30 records, high confidence
Peace Lowland north AB: 24 records, high confidence
Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 23 records, high confidence
Western Alberta Upland central AB: 23 records, high confidence
Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 19 records, medium confidence
Slave River Lowland north AB: 14 records, medium confidence
Northern Continental Divide south AB: 9 records, medium confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

28 documented relationships.

nectar for

Ancistrocerus adiabatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena carlini Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena milwaukeensis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena vicina Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Calligrapher Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Ceratina calcarata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Chalcosyrphus vecors Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis flavipes Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis stipator Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus confusus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus ligatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Helophilus fasciatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hylaeus affinis Clint Otto et al. 2020
Lasioglossum paraforbesii Clint Otto et al. 2020
Mallota bautias Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Megachile gemula Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Melanoplus bivittatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Northern Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Peck's Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sericomyia lata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Silver-spotted Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Silvery Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Temnostoma alternans Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Trichodezia albovittata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tropidia quadrata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Buying it

About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (groundcover default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate