Anemone cylindrica
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Anemone cylindrica is a very upright growing, clump forming herbaceous
plant species in the genus Anemone
and family Ranunculaceae
. Plants grow 30 to 100 cm tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20 to 35 mm long. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind.
Anemone cylindrica is native to north central North America were it can be found growing in prairies, in dry open woods, along roadsides and in pastures.
Anemone cylindrica is one of several plants known as thimbleweed
.
Herbaceous
A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
plant species in the genus Anemone
Anemone
Anemone , is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones...
and family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae are a family of about 1700 species of flowering plants in about 60 genera, distributed worldwide....
. Plants grow 30 to 100 cm tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20 to 35 mm long. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind.
Anemone cylindrica is native to north central North America were it can be found growing in prairies, in dry open woods, along roadsides and in pastures.
Anemone cylindrica is one of several plants known as thimbleweed
Thimbleweed
The common name Thimbleweed may refer to any of a number of plants with seed heads resembling a thimble, including:*Rudbeckia laciniata*Anemone virginiana*Anemone cylindrica...
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