Wood Anemone, Windflower, Anemone quinquefolia L., Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Wood Anemone	Anemone quinquefolia L.	Buttercup (Ranunculaceae)	Woodland	Spring
Other names and notes	(Windflower). A woodland flower with long-stalked basal leaves of 3, in a whorl. Each leaf is divided into 3 to 5 unevenly toothed lobes (not leaflets) that have deep clefts. The flowers are single on a long stalk rising above the leaf whorl, about 1" wide. The entire plant is no more than 8" high. Blooms can begin in mid-April if the season is early and can last into June during a late spring season. The flower may have a pinkish tinge when it opens, but turns white as it matures. The color is in the sepals, there are no petals. Grows from a slender, horizontal root stalk.

Notes: This plant is indigenous to the Garden area and was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time. The plant is native to Minnesota in most counties except the SW Quadrant and a few counties in the NW. In the U. S. it is found from Minnesota eastward with the exception of Louisiana and Florida, but in Canada it is found in the all the lower provinces except British Columbia.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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