- Anemone virginiana
Taxobox
name = "Anemone virginiana"
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regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Ranunculales
familia =Ranunculaceae
genus = "Anemone "
species = "A. virginiana"
binomial = "Anemone virginiana"
binomial_authority = L."Anemone virginiana" is an upright growing
herbaceous plant species in the genus "Anemone " and familyRanunculaceae . Plants grow 30 to 80 cm 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 long and 12 mm 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. [cite book
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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]References
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