Family: Ranunculaceae,
Buttercup
Genus: Anemone
Description
General: perennial, 5-20 cm tall, almost hairless to densely
soft-long-hairy, from widespread, slender, horizontal,
spreading rhizomes.
 Leaves: the basal ones usually several, the blades
thick, heart- to kidney-shaped in outline, 1.5-3 cm broad,
divided in 3's, the leaflets wedge-shaped, blunt-toothed to
shallowly round-lobed, the side leaflets commonly once or
twice lobed at least half their length. Stem leaves in a whorl
above mid-stem, nearly stalkless, simple but usually
divided nearly to the base into 3 entire to notched or lobed
segments.
 Flowers: solitary with no petals, the 5 sepals showy,
petal-like, egg-shaped, rounded, white or rose- or bluish-
tinged, hairy on the outer face, mostly 10-15 mm long.
Stamens numerous.
Flowering time: Late May-August.
 Fruits: achenes, densely woolly, obovate, 2-2.5 mm
long, many in rounded heads. Style straight, 1.5-2 mm
long, hairless.
Distribution
Along streams or in mountain meadows, montane to alpine
zone, in w. and s.c. parts of MT. Also from AK to n. WA,
n.e. OR, c. ID, CO, e. to the Atlantic coast, and in Asia. |
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