Wood Anemone - Anemone quinquefolia
An early spring wildflower that often grows in sizable clusters. Since the flowers of anemones are slender-stalked and tremble in the breeze, they have been called "wind flowers"; the genus name is derived from the Greek anemos ("wind").
Habitat: Deciduous forest
''Anemonoides quinquefolia'' is a spring-flowering plant in the buttercup family, native to North America. It is commonly called wood anemone, like ''Anemonoides nemorosa'', a closely related European species. It has previously been treated as a subspecies of ''Anemone nemorosa''.
Similar species: Ranunculales
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Uploaded Oct 13, 2020. Captured May 15, 2020 23:12 in 281 Main St S, Woodbury, CT 06798, USA.
