Reviewed by Barbara Gillette Japanese anemone, also known as windflower or Japanese thimbleweed, is a hardy plant with lovely white, pink, or purple blossoms. As a herbaceous perennial, it blooms ...

It was a sport (spontaneous offspring) from the even more widespread anemone, the pale pink Anemone x hybrida, which was raised at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick in 1848.