Date: June 3, 2012. Location: Macbride Nature Recreation Area (map)
| Classification Hierarchy | |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Subkingdom | Tracheophyta |
| Superdivision | Spermatophyta |
| Division | Magnoliophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Subclass | Magnoliidae |
| Order | Ranunculales |
| Family | Ranunculaceae |
| Genus | Anemone |
| Species | Anemone virginiana |
Date: June 3, 2012. Location: Macbride Nature Recreation Area (map)
USDA Plant Profile Flora of N. America
Scientific Name: Anemone virginiana (anemone=wind, virginiana=from virginia)
Common Name: Tall anemone
Origin: Native
Notes: Compare with Anemone cylindrica. Notice that some pedicels in the inflorescence of A. virginiana have leaf-like involucral bracts at mid-pedicel. These mid-pedicel bracts are absent in A. cylindrica.
Additional references: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Flowers: June; sepals 5, green, yellow, or red—abaxially green to greenish yellow; pedicels 13-25 cm, some with involucral bracts at mid-stem; inflorescence 3-9 flowered cymes; peduncle villous; primary involucral bracts 3, secondary involucral bracts 2, ternate, appear similar to basal leaves; Fruit a woolly achene with curved beak.
Leaves: Basal leaves 1-5, ternate; petiole 5-35 cm; margins coarsely serrate and incised on distal half.
Habitat: Dry, rocky, thickets, open woods
Glossaries of botanical terms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
