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Wood Anemone

(

Anemone nemorosa

DESCRIPTION

Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the fresh plant

gathered shortly before the flowers open and the dried aerial

parts of the plant.

Flower and Fruit: The white flowers are solitary and located

at the end of a long stem. The stem is erect when in flower,

white to reddish-violet, and has a diameter of 1.5 to 4 cm.

The usually 6 (but possibly 5 to 9) bracts are oblong-ovate,

entire-margined and glabrous. The flowers have numerous

yellow stamens. The 10 to 20 carpels are oblong with a short

curved beak. They are downy and 4 to 5 mm long. The fruit

is a drooping compound with a roughly haired fruitlet.

Leaves, Stem and Root: Anemone nemorosa is a perennial

plant, 6 to 30 cm high with a horizontally creeping, yellow to

dark brown, roundish rhizome. The stems are usually

solitary, erect, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. There is 4

usually a long-stemmed basal leaf. The leaf is tri-pinnate and

pinnatifid-serrate. The first row of pinna are stemmed and

have horizontal pinna sections, each with 1 pinna of the

second level. There are cauline rosettes of 3 leaf-like bracts,

which have a 2-cm long petiole. The bracts do not generally

have axillary buds, and are palmate and pinnatifid-serrate.

Habitat: The plant is spread almost all over Europe as far as

the Volga region except in the Mediterranean and northern

Lapland.

Production: Wood Anemone is the aerial part of Anemone

nemorosa, collected shortly before the flowers open.

Other Names: Pasque Flower, Crowfoot, Wind Flower,

Smell Fox

ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY

COMPOUNDS

Protoanemonine-forming agents (yielding approximately

300 meg protoanemonine per gram of fresh weight): "

presumably, the glycoside ranunculin, which changes enzy-

matically when the plant is cut into small pieces (and

probably also when it is dried) into the pungent, volatile

protoanemonine that quickly dimerizes to anemonine; when

dried, the plant is not capable of protoanemonine formation

EFFECTS

No information is available.