ANEMONELLA 



Syndesmon thalktroides (Linnaeus) Hoffmannsegg 



Anemonella, often called rue-anemone, frequents open woods, 

 where it is found in company with hepatica and bloodroot when the 

 first warm days of spring call sleeping plants to awaken. The slender 

 stems, bearing the fragile green leaves and delicate pink or white flow- 

 ers, grow from a cluster of small tuberous roots. These hold so lightly 

 to the soil that they are easily pulled up, unless care is taken in plucking 

 the flowering stems. Anemonella, the only member of its genus, resem- 

 bles somewhat its relatives, the true anemones or windflowers, but 

 differs in having the flowers in clusters, and the leaves divided into 

 rounded leaflets. It yields readily to cultivation and is a real desideratum 

 for the wildflower garden 



Anemonella is a wide-ranging species, extending from Florida to 

 New Hampshire and westward to Kansas and Minnesota. 



The specimen sketched was found at Washington, District of 

 Columbia. 



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