[2] The specific epithet hupehensis, which means "from Hupeh (Hupei, Hubei) province, China",[3] refers to a region where the species is known to occur.

[5] Eriocapitella hupehensis is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rhizome-like root structure.

[1] Eriocapitella hupehensis along with four other taxa (E. × hybrida, E. japonica, E. tomentosa, and E.  vitifolia) are known as fall-blooming anemones.

[4] Eriocapitella hupehensis and its cultivars are cultivated worldwide, especially in Asia, Europe, and South America, where naturalized populations are known to exist.

Hundreds of years ago, a semi-double form of E. hupehensis escaped cultivation and spread across China to Japan and Korea.

[9][8][10] At the Chicago Botanic Garden, Rudy experimented with 26 cultivars of fall-blooming anemones over a 5-year period beginning in 1998.