PRAIRIE ANEMONE (Canada Anemone; 

 Anernone canadensis L. 



May - June In latr M;iy when most of the delicate flowers of 



Bottomlands. spriiiu- are jiast their blossoniin<r time and the 



prniric roadsides iiiorc i(>l)ust llowers of siuniiior are gjowing rap- 

 idly ill the huiiiid warmth of Illinois, the prairie 

 or Canada aneiuoiics hloom. In their simple white blossoms held al)ove 

 dark fjreen leaves, these anemones take one haek into the vanished days 

 <»f early s})rino: wltere hlossoiiied llowers with this same delicacy, this 

 same tiemulousncss, in a hrcc/.e. 



From the hi-avy alluvial soil of the river hanks, there where the 

 bottomland majjles and elms fjive way to a clearinj; taken over later in 

 the season by lun'sewtH'ds and trumjiet vines, thiMe now may aj^pear a 

 neat l)ed of the dark iireen leaves, deeorat(>d with the lluttering whit(^ 

 flowers of anemones. Tliey are large enough to be used as a garden flower 

 — sturdy of stem, ornamental of leaf, large of flower. These are show 

 plants. 



This is the largest of our loral anemones. It may be found on remote 

 river banks, or along a highway where the gras.>^y embankment slopes up 

 to a fence or down to a ditch, or in prairie soil. The anemones always 

 are abundant wh.eiever they grow. There either are none at all or there 

 are tlozens, hundii'ds. 



Now in the bright sunshine of late May and early .Tune, they deco- 

 rate their chosen jiateli of |u-aiii(> with some of the loveliest flowers of 

 the year. 



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