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Pacific anemone

Anemone multifida

Also called Red Windflower, Cutleaf Anemone, Bird's Foot Anemone, Cut Leaf Anemone, Cut Leaved Anemone

Pacific anemone
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Safety
Toxic
Native range
Subarctic America to N. & W. U.S.A., C. & S. Chile to W. & S. Argentina
Climate
temperate

About

Anemone multifida is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common names cutleaf anemone, Pacific anemone and globe anemone. It is a perennial herb native to northern North America from Alaska to New York and as far south as Arizona and New Mexico. It is also known from parts of South America.

Where it grows

Anemone multifida is found growing on calcareous ledges, in areas with rocky or gravelly soils around lakes and other water ways, and on dunes. In Minnesota it is recorded as growing in a prairie.

Other Anemone plants

Anemonoides apennina · Tenpetal thimbleweed · Anemonoides blanda · Carolina anemone · Poppy anemone · Candle anemone · Drummond's anemone · Edwards Plateau thimbleweed · Broad Leaved Anemone · Southern Anemone · Anemonoides lancifolia · Smallflowered anemone

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemone multifida 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.

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