GLOBE ANEMONE 



Anemone globosa Nuttall 



This beautiful flower is often the first anemone seen by the flower 

 lover whose Western journey is taken in midsummer, when the 

 early anemones are past flowering. The plants grow in clumps, the 

 flowers borne on stout stems well above the gray-green foliage 

 and colored pink, red, white, or sometimes lavender. A thimble-like 

 seed-head follows the flowers, and this soon develops into a fluffy 

 mass, each seed being provided with cottony hairs by which the 

 wind transports it to a new location. The anemones belong to the 

 Crowfoot Family. 



Globe anemone occurs from New Mexico and California north- 

 ward to South Dakota, Mackenzie, and Alaska. It is very plentiful 

 in some of the dry meadows near Banff 



The sketch was made from specimens gathered near Mt. Mas- 

 sive, ten miles west of Banff, Alberta, Canada, at an altitude of 5,000 

 feet. 



PLATE 2.91 



