I think you are slightly off with the name :-) It is Anemonopsis macrophylla or false anemone. Related to but not the same as anemones.

Not all that common a plant.

Thanks 'gg'....correction made.

And my reading (never tried to grow) indicates it's a plant that would prefer cool moist summers...not gonna happen here.

Our summers are definitely not cool but for sure not as warm as Arkansas!

I purchased this at Lost Horizons a number of years ago. I grew it in a shady, fairly moist spot. It was lovely and survived both our summers and winters in my former garden. I don't remember it being as tall as your friend's specimen. Hers is obviously happy!

And as one might expect my friend got hers at LH also :).

(Good luck finding this plant anywhere else in....Ontario?)

Pretty! My first thought was Fuchsia...very similar, bloom wise.

It is pretty and the unusual height of the flowers above the foliage, if that is typical, is kind of unique.

As I reported here 2 years ago, my now 3+ year old Anemonopsis endured frequent squirrel torture and the hot humid South Carolina weather in the shade. Finally it grew some large leaves.

Today the dog destroyed it.

I found the broken stem with large leaves, and I wonder if it would root, but the stem is thin and hard. I couldn't find the roots.

I grew a couple from seed, of which I was insanely proud. However, I offered them to D-i-L to put on her cat's grave in our wood...whereupon they pretty much vanished beneath rampaging hellebores, foxgloves and grasses. I have never since attempted to search through the undergrowth to ascertain whether they still lived (suspect not)...but your photo does make me think this would be well worth growing again (now I have a gently shaded space among ferns and semiaquilegia 'Sugar Plum Fairy' which has bloomed for the first time, this year.

I got mine from LH too, of course. It did fairly well, but was in great danger of being overshadowed and overgrown by hosta, aster, brunnera etc., so this spring I moved it a foot or two. It now has a bit more room, and is budding up, so it seems to like its new spot. Bad picture, but it gets lost in the dappled greenness.

Do you have one, Rouge? Suzy, if it sets seed, you will get it, but I don’t remember ever having seen a seedpod. Maybe not self fertile?

Do you have one, Rouge?

I do not.

If it grows well, maybe I can give you a piece next spring…

I have 2 out of 3 left from an order from Edelweiss Perennials back in October 2016 (I found the receipt on my email) .

I really like them but by the time those buds mature and open, they are often bedraggled from the fall rain so I don't seem to have any previous photos in bloom.

They do have competition from bleeding hearts and my dreaded horsetail, but they seem to be big enough to hold up.

They are both nice sized, 24 inches across, leaves 15 inches high and top bud 22 inches high.

Wow, lat62, those are big! Mine have some catching up to do.