NORTHERN ANEMONE 



Anemone farviflora Michaux 



On account of its greater range in altitude, northern anemone 

 flowers during a longer season than most of its relatives. If we climb 

 in midsummer above timberline, we find it in sheltered places where 

 the snow has recently melted, blooming beside the rivulets of snow 

 water. It is able to withstand even the frosty nights of the higher 

 slopes and appears none the worse for the freezing it has experienced. 

 When the flowers are past, a woolly seed head soon develops, and in 

 autumn the seeds are carried away by the wind to new localities. The 

 name Anemone is derived from a Greek word meaning "the wind." 

 Northern anemone belongs to the Buttercup Family, and has a wide 

 range from Ontario to Labrador, Colorado, and Alaska. It grows also 

 in Asia. 



The flowers sketched were found near Wild Flower Camp, twenty- 

 five miles by trail from Lake Louise, Alberta, at an altitude of 7,000 

 feet. 



PLATE 371 



