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Anemone
multifida variety multifida (Windflower, Cutleaf Anemone) Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family) Montane, subalpine.
Woodlands, meadows. Spring, summer. In late spring or early summer Anemone multifida's finely cut, light green leaves are eye-catching. But your eye may have first been caught by the hairy, half inch, pink to red to maroon to yellow to white flower sepals (Anemone lack petals). Often the sepals are bicolored. Last year's dried leaves and stalks can be seen at the base of the new growth at left, so you know the plant is a perennial and that once you have found this delicate beauty, you can return to the same location and enjoy it again next year. As the photographs at left, below, and above illustrate, Anemone multifida varies not only in flower color but also in the overall robustness of the plant. This species also has a wide range in elevation, from 6,500 feet to 14,000 feet. The plants shown on this page were growing at 8,200 feet (Ryman Creek) to 11,300 feet (Kennebec Pass). Weber points out that the word "Anemone" is a "corruption of 'Na'man', [the] Semitic name for Adonis, from whose blood the crimson-flowered Anemone of the Middle East was said to have sprung." Weber goes on to say that the flower name, "Anemone", "probably has nothing to do with [the] Greek [word], "anemos", [which means] "wind." "Multifida" is Latin for "many divisions", referring to the finely cut leaves. |
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Anemone
multifida variety multifida (Windflower, Cutleaf Anemone) Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family) Montane, subalpine.
Woodlands, meadows. Spring, summer. In the Four Corners area, strong shades of red predominate in the sepals, but sepals with blue, yellow, or white are possible.
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Anemone
multifida variety multifida (Windflower, Cutleaf Anemone) Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family) Montane, subalpine.
Woodlands, meadows. Spring, summer. Leaves are three-parted and each part is cut again with each final division having pointed-to-rounded tips. |
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Anemone
multifida variety multifida (Windflower, Cutleaf Anemone) Ranunculaceae (Buttercup Family) Montane, subalpine.
Woodlands, meadows. Spring, summer. Seed pods are cute, curious, even humorous works of art and when they fully ripen their heads are a mass of funny fluff. |
Range map © John Kartesz,
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Range map for Anemone multifida |