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Photographer: Janice Stiefel
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Family Ranunculaceae
Anemone quinquefolia L. var. quinquefolia
nightcaps, wood anemone
Anemone: an ancient Greek name from anemos, "wind"
quinquefolia: Latin for "five-leaved"
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 2"-8" tall, delicate forb; thin rhizomes |
| Flower: | white to reddish below, usually 5-parted, 1" wide, petal-like sepals; solitary on a long stalk; blooms April-June |
| Leaf: | solitary, long-stalked, basal leaf often reddish when young, divided into 3-5 coarsely, unevenly-toothed, palmately-divided lobes (not distinct leaflets) and a whorl of stalked, smaller leaves beneath the flower stalk  |
| Habitat: | moist to moderate moisture; woods, forests |
| Notes: | also see Enemion biternatum and Thalictrum thalictroides |
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