rue anemone

noun

1. a small, North American plant, Anemonella thalictroides, of the buttercup family, having white or pinkish flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rue anemone¹

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

Example Sentences

In “The Spring Ephemerals,” a trillium belongs to a complex ecosystem of “rue anemone, masses // of colt’s foot, wild ginger, blood root and may- / apples, bracken and fiddlehead fern.”

From The New Yorker

He rose and joined his wife, who held toward him a handful of trailing arbutus, rue anemones, bloodroot, and dicentras.

From Project Gutenberg