ANEMONE 



It is also one of Ophelia's flowers: 



"There's fennel for you and columbines." 



'^ ANEMONE. WINDFLOWER 



Ancrndnc quinqucfolia. Anemone nemorosa, var. quinqucfdlia 



Perennial. Margins of woods and thickets, in the 

 sun and yet somewhat shaded. Nova Scotia to Ontario 

 and Minnesota, west to the Rocky Mountains, south to 

 Georgia. Abundant in northern Ohio. April, May. 



Rootstock. — Slender, horizontal. 



Floiver-stem. — Five to twelve inches high, bearing a 

 whorl of three involucral leaves. 



Leaves. — Stem-leaves three-parted, the wedge-shaped 

 divisions lobed and toothed, or the lateral ones deeply 

 two-parted; basal leaves long-petioled, appearing later 

 than the flowering stem, five-parted, the divisions oblong, 

 wedge-shaped, toothed. 



Flowers. — White or slightly tinted at the edges, an inch 

 across, solitary at the summit of the flowering stem. 



Calyx. — Five to nine petal-like sepals. 



Corolla. — Wanting. 



Stamens. — Many; anthers cream color. 



Pistil. — Fifteen to twenty carpels in a bunch, each 

 oblong with a hooked beak. 



Pollinated by bees and flies. Capable of self-fertil- 

 ization. 



"Within the woods 

 Whose young and half-transparent leaves scarce cast a shade, 

 Gay circles of Anemones dance on their stalks." 



— Bryant. 

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