Source: AFPD[1] Anemone thomsonii is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.

It is a low to high (7–70 cm) geophyte with finely divided leaves from the ground, and a stem that carries one flower, which has about twenty sepals, that are white or light pink inside and mostly have a very wide purple stripe at the outside.

The many, single carpels, and the single-seeded, dry and indehiscent fruits (called achenes), that they develop into, are covered in dense silky hairs.

[2] Anemone thomsonii was first described by Daniel Oliver in 1885, based on a specimen that was collected by Joseph Thomson during his 1883-1884 mission to Mount Kilimanjaro and the Aberdare Range, and now resides at the Kew Herbarium.

[3][4] The species was named to commemorate Joseph Thomson's successful 1883-1884 plant collecting mission.