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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Ranunculaceae
Anemone virginiana L.
tall anemone, tall thimbleweed
Anemone: an ancient Greek name from anemos, "wind"
virginiana: of Virginia
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 1'-3' tall forb |
| Flower: | greenish to white, 5-parted, 3/4"-1" wide, petal-like sepals; mostly 1-3 long stalks of a solitary flower; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | dry seeds on a 1/2"- 1 1/4" densely woolly, oval to cylindrical cluster |
| Leaf: | basal leaves stalked, deeply palmately-divided, whorl of 3 smaller stalked leaves at the base of the flowering stalks, and 2 leaf-like bracts midway on some of the flower stalks |
| Habitat: | semi-shade; dry to moderate moisture; woods, prairies, inland sands |
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