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Anemone cylindrica
Also called Thimbleweed, Long Fruited Anemone, Long Headed Anemone, Long Headed Thimbleweed, Longhead Anemone, Cylindrical Thimbleweed, Cottonweed
Anemone cylindrica, also known as thimbleweed, is an upright growing, clump forming herbaceous species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 30–100 centimetres (12–39 in) tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering until late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. It is primarily self-pollinated. After flowering, the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20–35 millimetres (0.79–1.38 in) 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 where it can be found growing in prairies, in dry open woods, along roadsides and in pastures.
Anemonoides apennina · Tenpetal thimbleweed · Anemonoides blanda · Carolina anemone · Poppy anemone · Drummond's anemone · Edwards Plateau thimbleweed · Broad Leaved Anemone · Southern Anemone · Anemonoides lancifolia · Pacific anemone · Smallflowered anemone
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemone cylindrica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
