Anemone cylindrica

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Anemone cylindrica
Anemone cylindrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Ranunculaceae Genus: Anemone Species: A. cylindrica
Binomial name
Anemone cylindrica Gray.

Anemone cylindrica is a very upright growing, clump forming herbaceous plant species in the genus Anemone and family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 30 to 100 cm tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20 to 35 mm long. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind.

Anemone cylindrica is native to north central North America were it can be found growing in prairies, in dry open woods, along roadsides and in pastures.^[1]

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