Anemone x seemanii syn.* A x lipsiensis

This pastel lemon one flowers a little before the others. 

There are supposed to be two* that are separately named. But I have clumped them together as no one  can tell them apart, net alone me. Pale lemon and a hybrid between A. nemorosa and A. ranunculoides. Light woodland conditions with humus. Can dry out a little in summer to no effect. The earliest anemone. For me in frosty climes I see the flowers at the start of August. The flowers emerge just ahead of the leaves. How special!

Clump: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons