Windflower

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Windflower may refer to:

  • the common name of Anemone nemorosa, a poisonous plant.
    • The flower Adonis turns into after having been torn to pieces by a boar in Ovid's 'Venus and Adonis' and in the various translations of that story by Shakespeare, Ted Hughes, etc.
  • Pulsatilla patens, also called Anemone patens, a poisonous plant
  • Sir Edward Elgar's private name for Alice Stuart-Wortley, his close friend and correspondent.
  • Windflowers, a song written by Seals and Crofts.
  • Windflowers, a painting of John William Waterhouse.
  • Windflower, a novel by Gabrielle Roy.
  • Windflower, a novel written by Nick Bantock.
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