Anemone virginiana

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

Anemone virginiana is an upright growing herbaceous plant species in the genus Anemone and family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 30 to 80 cm tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are white or greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded thimble shaped spikes 15 to 35 mm long and 12 mm wide. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind. Native from Eastern North America. Were it is found growing in dry or open woods.[1]


[edit] References

  1. ^ (1997) Flora of North America Vol 3, Magnoliophyta:Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford University Press, pp 139-158. ISBN 019511246-6.