Anemone nemorosa — form with dark foliage and blue-mauve flowers, unidentified.
This photograph reveals a particularly remarkable cultivar or selection, combining two distinctive ornamental features simultaneously present, which is rare in the genus.
The foliage is a very dark purple-brown, almost chocolate, intense and uniform, covering the entire plant and strongly contrasting with the flowers. This type of pigmented foliage exists in a few known cultivars, notably 'Bracteata Pleniflora' partially, or some recent selections, but rarely associated with such abundant and colorful flowering.
The flowers feature six to seven narrow and well-separated tepals, of a soft and bright lilac mauve, slightly paler in the center, with a bouquet of cream-yellow stamens forming a clear and distinct eye. The color is close to that of 'Allenii' or 'Robinsoniana', but the combination with the dark foliage is striking and unusual.
The association of dark purple foliage and mauve flowers produces a chromatic contrast of great elegance, rare in the species. This cultivar could correspond to 'Dark Leaf' or a related selection recently marketed, but precise identification remains uncertain.