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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Ranunculaceae
Anemone caroliniana Walter
Carolina anemone, prairie anemone
Anemone: an ancient Greek name from anemos, "wind"
caroliniana: from Carolinas
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Endangered |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 4"-6" tall forb; root a small round tuber that has 1 to several succulent rhizomes |
| Flower: | white to blue/pink, 10-20-parted, 1"-1 1/2" wide, petal-like sepals; 1 softly hairy, long stalk with a solitary flower; blooms April-May |
| Fruit: | dry, very woolly seed |
| Leaf: | basal leaves long-stalked, deeply, palmately-divided into 3 sharply toothed segments, and a whorl of 3 smaller stalkless leaves below the middle of the stem |
| Habitat: | dry; prairies, barrens |
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