Anemone cylindrica

Taxobox
name = "Anemone cylindrica"
status =


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Anemone cylindrica"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ranunculales
familia = Ranunculaceae
genus = "Anemone"
species = "A. cylindrica"
binomial = "Anemone cylindrica"
binomial_authority = Gray.

"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. [cite book
last =
first = Flora of North America Editorial Committee
title = Flora of North America Vol 3, Magnoliophyta:Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 1997
pages = pp 139-158
isbn = 019511246-6]

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