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RANUNCULACEAE (CROWFOOT FAMILY) 



be broken up and put to cultivated crops, and well fertilized and 

 tilled for a year or two before being reseeded heavily with clean 



THIMBLEWEED 



Anemone virginidna, L. 



Other English names: Tall Anemone, Virginia Anemone. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to August. 



Seed-time: July to September. 



Range: Nova Scotia and Maine to Manitoba and Minnesota, 



southward to the Carolinas and Kansas. 

 Habitat: Upland meadows and pastures, borders of woods, and 



fence rows; waste places. 



A tall, hairy plant which is rejected by grazing animals, either 

 as hay or as green forage. Stem two to three feet high, with a 

 few tufted leaves at its base and a 

 whorl of three involucral leaves at the 

 base of its flower-stalks. Base-leaves 

 broader than long, three-parted, the 

 segments broadly wedge-shaped and 

 again cut into pointed and sharply 

 toothed lobes ; they are softly hairy 

 and have prominent veins and long, 

 slender petioles. The three involucral 

 leaves have short petioles and are also 

 three-parted, the lateral segments twice 

 and the middle one thrice divided, 

 and sharply toothed. If the plant 

 bears but one flower, its peduncle is 

 leafless, but usually there are several 

 lateral stalks and these have a two- 

 leaved, short-petioled involucel at the 

 middle. Flowers a half-inch to an inch 

 broad, without petals but having five 

 greenish white sepals surrounding a 

 thick central tuft of many yellow sta- 



Fio. no. - Thimbleweed mens and awl-shaped styles. Seed- 

 (Anemonemrginiana). x i. heads oblong, cylindric, about three- 



