Anemone virginiana
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Anemone virginiana is an upright growing herbaceous
plant species in the genus Anemone
and family Ranunculaceae
. Plants grow 30 to 80 cm (11" to 31.5") tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are white or greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded thimble shaped spikes 15 to 35 mm (0.6" to 1.4") long and 12 mm (0.47") wide. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind. Native from Eastern North America. Were it is found growing in dry or open woods.
Common name
s include tall anemone, thimble-weed and tumble-weed. Note that several other plant species are known as Thimbleweed
.
Although this plant sometimes is called a tumbleweed, it lacks the characteristic tumbleweed habit
. The fruit resembles a tumbleweed in that it is wind-dispersed and tumbles, an unusual mechanism of seed dispersal
(see Diaspore (botany)
).
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 80 cm (11" to 31.5") tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are white or greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded thimble shaped spikes 15 to 35 mm (0.6" to 1.4") long and 12 mm (0.47") wide. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind. Native from Eastern North America. Were it is found growing in dry or open woods.
Common name
Common name
A common name of a taxon or organism is a name in general use within a community; it is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism...
s include tall anemone, thimble-weed and tumble-weed. Note that several other plant species are 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...
.
Although this plant sometimes is called a tumbleweed, it lacks the characteristic tumbleweed habit
Tumbleweed
A tumbleweed is the above-ground part of a plant that, once mature and dry, disengages from the root and tumbles away in the wind. Usually, the tumbleweed is the entire plant apart from the roots, but in a few species it is a flower cluster. The tumbleweed habit is most common in steppe and desert...
. The fruit resembles a tumbleweed in that it is wind-dispersed and tumbles, an unusual mechanism of seed dispersal
Seed dispersal
Seed dispersal is the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and consequently rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their propagules, including both abiotic and biotic vectors. Seeds can be dispersed away from the parent plant...
(see Diaspore (botany)
Diaspore (botany)
In botany, a diaspore is a plant dispersal unit consisting of a seed or spore plus any additional tissues that assist dispersal. In some seed plants, the diaspore is a seed and fruit together, or a seed and elaiosome. In a few seed plants, the diaspore is most or all of the plant, known as a...
).