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Northern Ontario Plant Database
Plant DescriptionAnemone canadensis L.En: Canada anemone, meadow anemone, roundleaf thimbleweed, Canada windflower
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup or crowfoot Family) Click on thumbnail to see larger image.
General: A perennial forb, to 80 cm tall, growing from a slender rhizome. Leaves: Basal and cauline, orbicular in general outline, to 15 cm wide, blades deeply cleft into 3–7 segments. Basal leaves 1-5, long petiolate; cauline leaf single, sessile, divided into 3 main segments, each of which is divided into 3 oblanceolate lobes; bases of leaf segments cuneate, apices of lobes acuminate, lobe margins entire towards the base, coarsely serrate towards the tip. Flowers: 1–3, usually solitary; to 4 cm wide, on long erect stalks (peduncles); tepals 5, white, obovate, to 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide; stamens many; pistils many, distinct (apocarpous), ovule 1 per pistil. Flowering May to July. Fruit: A spherical aggregate of beaked achenes; obovate to ellipsoid, to 6 mm long and 6 mm wide. Habitat and Range: Moist meadows, damp thickets, streamsides, and lakeshores. Native to eastern North America. Canada anemone is a good indicator of basic or calcareous substrates. – written by Derek Goertz Back to species list |
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