Anemone (anemone, windflower)
Called windflowers because they are usually slender-stalked and tremble in the breeze. Derivation as for Adonis who was also known as Naamen. His blood is said to have given rise to the blood-red fls of A. coronaria.
OD lvs
| ..... | involucre leaves: sessile | involucre lvs petioled: | ..... |
| ..... | ..... | trifoliate | not trifoliate |
| rhizomatous: seps 5 |
..... | ..... | ..... |
| fls white | Canada anemone (3.canadensis) white fls; sandy shores, damp prairies & wet meadows; abundant; e QE to MD | ..... | ..... |
| fls white or reddish beneath | ..... | ..... | ..... |
| plant 4-8" | ..... | wood anemone (1.quinquefolia = five-flowered) moist woods; QE to MD & in mts to GA | ..... |
| plant to 16" | ..... | mountain anemone (2.lancifolia) rich mtn woods; s. PA s. | ..... |
| not rhizomatous | ..... | ..... | ..... |
| styles at maturity 2-4cm, plumose; sepals 5-7 | ..... | ..... | prairie-smoke or pasqueflower (9.patens = spreading) blue or purple to white fls; dry prairies & barrens; e. to WI |
| styles otherwise: seps 5-8 | ..... | ..... | ..... |
| fls white or bluish | small-flowered anemone (5.parviflora) X | ..... | ..... |
| fls greenish-white | ..... | ..... | thimbleweed anemone (8.virginiana) heavily veined; 3
involucral lvs; thimble-shaped group of pistils; dry or
open woods; e QE to GA long-headed thimbleweed (7.cylindrica) more than 3 invol. lvs; dry, open woods and prairies; s to NJ |
| fls yellowish or red | cut-leaved anemone (6.multifida) X; shores & rocky banks, us. in calcareous soil: NF to n NY | ..... | ..... |
| seps 10-20 | prairie anemone (4.caroliniana)X white to rose or purple fls; dry prairies & barrens; SD s. | ..... | ..... |