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Common Name - Wood Anemone |
| Scientific Name - Anemone quinquefolia |
| Family Name - Buttercup (Ranunculaceae) |
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Season |
Perennial, blooms in the spring. |
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Habitat |
Moist deciduous woods where there
are openings and forest edges. |
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Flower |
Regular, solitary on a stalk, 1 inch
diameter, white, with 5 sepals and many yellow stamens. |
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Leaves |
Toothed, lobed, palmately compound,
3 - 5 leaflets, leaves arranged in groups of three as a whorl
on the stem. |
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