Anemone cylindrica

Anemone cylindrica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Ranunculaceae
Genus:	Anemone
Species:	A. cylindrica
Binomial name
Anemone cylindrica Gray.

Anemone cylindrica, also known as thimbleweed,^[1] is an upright growing, clump forming herbaceous species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 30–100 centimetres (12–39 in) tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. It is primarily self-pollinated.^[2] After flowering, the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20–35 millimetres (0.79–1.38 in) 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 where it can be found growing in prairies, in dry open woods, along roadsides and in pastures.^[3]

Anemone cylindrica is one of several plants known as thimbleweed.^[4]

References

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1. "Native Plants to Know: Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica)".
2. "Native Plants to Know: Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica)".
3. Flora of North America Vol 3, Magnoliophyta:Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. Oxford University Press. 1997. pp. 139–158. ISBN 0-19-511246-6.
4. John Hilty, Thimbleweed at www.illinoiswildflowers.info