General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 3 - 4 feet (.91 - 1.22 m)
Plant Spread: 2 - 3 feet (.61 - .91 m)
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: 2"-3"
Flower Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant

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Common names
  • Japanese Anemone
  • Japanese Windflower
  • Japanese Thimbleflower
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Eriocapitella hupehensis
  • Synonym: Anemone hupehensis
Also sold as:
  • 'Wirbelwind'
  • 'Tourbillon'

Photo Gallery

Date: 2020-08-30
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2016-08-27
Location: My Yard, zone 6
Date: 2019-10-07
Location: My Yard, zone 6
Date: 2019-10-07
Location: Bochum, Germany
Date: 2022-03-06
Seeds of Whirlwind at the end of the winter season

Date: 2013-10-24
Location: My Yard, zone 6
Date: 2019-10-07
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2014-10-08
Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2017-09-17
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 27th August 2009

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: My Yard, zone 6
Date: 2019-10-07
Location: My Yard, zone 6
Date: 2019-10-07
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 27th August 2009

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
  • Uploaded by vic
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2014-10-11
Underside of calyx is always green in Anemone 'Whirlwind'.

Date: 2013-10-24
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-09-04

Date: 2013-10-24

Date: 2012-09-27

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2013-10-24

Date: 2013-10-24

Date: 2013-10-24

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