Anemone parviflora |
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northern anemone, northern windflower, small-flower anemone |
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Aerial shoots | 5-30(-35) cm, from short caudices on rhizomes, rhizomes primarily horizontal. |
Basal leaves | 1-5(-7), ternate; petiole 1-10 cm; terminal leaflet sessile, obtriangular, (0.5-)0.7-1.8(-2.2) × 0.5-1.3 cm, base cuneate, margins crenate to broadly serrate on distal 1/3, apex obtuse to truncate, surfaces villous to nearly glabrous; lateral leaflets usually 1x-lobed or -parted; ultimate lobes 4-15 mm wide. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered; peduncle villous; involucral bracts 2-3, 1-tiered, simple, ± similar to terminal leaflets of basal leaves, obtriangular, 3-cleft, 0.5-2.5 cm, bases distinct, cuneate, margins crenate to broadly serrate, surfaces villous to nearly glabrous; segments 3, oblanceolate to obovate; lateral segments unlobed, 2-8 mm wide. |
Flowers | sepals 4-7, white or tinged blue or abaxially white, proximally blue, and adaxially white, broadly elliptic to ovate, (7-)8-20 × 4-9 mm, abaxially hairy, adaxially glabrous; stamens 70-80. |
Achenes | body obovoid, 2-2.5 × ca. 1 mm, not winged, densely woolly; beak straight, 1-2.5 mm, glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | spheric; pedicel 4-18 cm. |
2n | =16. |
Anemone parviflora |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer (May–Aug). |
Habitat | Streamsides, meadows, rocky slopes |
Elevation | 0-3800m (0-12500ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CO; ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NT; ON; QC; SK; YT; Asia
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Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Anemone |
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Synonyms | A. borealis, A. parviflora var. grandiflora |
Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 319. (1803) |
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