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Photographer: William S. Alverson
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Family Ranunculaceae
Anemone multifida Poir. var. multifida
cut-leaved anemone, early anemone, Pacific anemone
Anemone: an ancient Greek name from anemos, "wind"
multifida: multiply divided
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Endangered |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 4"-24" tall forb; roots heavy, short, woody, stem-like, often branched |
| Flower: | white, 5-9-parted, 1/2"- 1" wide, petal-like sepals; inflorescence of 5-7 flowers in a cluster (cyme) on softy hairy stalk |
| Fruit: | dry, densely woolly seeds in a roundish cluster |
| Leaf: | basal leaves long-stalked, deeply palmately-divided into 3 deeply cut or lobed, linear segments and a whorl of 3 similar, mostly stalkless leaves on the stem |
| Habitat: | cliffs; in dry, gravelly soil |
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