The anemones are already here, "Drom Adom 2022" (photo: Ziv Reinstein, editing: Nir Chen)
The common anemone is one of the most common and well-known flowers in Israel and can be found from Hermon to Mount Negev.
The anemones familiar to most of us are the red anemones, but in various rainy areas in the north and center of the country you can see anemones of other colors: white, pink, purple, and even blue.
In recent days, the members of the Society for the Protection of Nature have documented a variety of anemones in different places in Israel.
Avner Rinot, a senior surveyor at the Urban Nature Surveys Unit, points out that the common anemone is a perennial geophyte that belongs to the Nurite family and apparently, the colored anemones usually bloom a little before the red ones.
"In the middle of the 20th century, it almost disappeared from the landscapes of the country, mainly because of velvet, but was saved thanks to the famous campaign 'Go to the landscape but don't pick' of the Society for the Protection of Nature and the Nature and Parks Authority, which led to its definition and the definition of other species in the law as protected flowers and raising awareness of the preservation of wild flowers ".
The color is starting to return to nature.
An anemone in the Megiddo grove, this week (photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Avner Rinot)
A perennial geophyte that belongs to the Norit family.
Red anemone on the Carmel beach (photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Sheaf Reter)
The leaves of the anemone close in the evening, and thus the beetle that pollinates it - protected (photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Avner Rinot)
Where will you see them?
The Society for the Protection of Nature notes that the first anemones have already begun to emerge and soon it will be possible to see the red blooms of the anemones. It will be possible to see them in the Carmel forests and Nahal Oren, Nahal Tabor, Tel Gador, Hadera Forest, Olga Hill in Hadera, Ben-Sheman Forest, Givat Hatitura the Watcher On Modi'in, the Kola forest, in the area of Pi Galilot and in the Afka caves, on the southern coastal plain, on Givat HaKurkar in Nes Ziona, Bari forest, Shukda forest, in Tarun Ruhama and more.
You will soon find the colorful anemones in Shoham Forest Park, Menashe and Emek HaShalom forests, Shamshit, Menchat Megiddo grove, Acho Nov reserve, Tal grove, Kibbutz Dafna and Kibbutz Maayan Baruch.
"One of the pollinators of the anemone is a beetle that comes to sleep at night inside the petals, and enjoys the fact that they close in the evening and thus it is protected. As part of this symbiosis, it also pollinates the anemone," adds Rinot.
The colored anemones usually bloom a little before the red ones.
An anemone in the Megiddo grove (photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Avner Rinot)
An anemone in Ramot Menashe, March 2022 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Soon it will be possible to see the carpets of red bloom in the north of the Negev.
Anemones in Beer Marva, last year (Photo: Shay Makhlouf)
In addition, these days the Society for the Protection of Nature is renewing the survey of anemones in Israel, a collaboration with Dr. Yuval Sapir from Tel Aviv University, with the aim of mapping the different colors of anemones in Israel. Additional information and the report form, where you can also see the constantly updated reports in real time , are on the dedicated website.
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