160 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 
seed. 
THIMBLEWEED 
Anemone virginiana, 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 
a few tufted leaves at its base and a 
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- 
Fic. 110. — Thimbleweeq Mens and awl-shaped styles. Seed- 
(Anemone virginiana). x3. heads oblong, cylindric, about three- 
