Long-headed Windflower

Anemone cylindrica

''Anemone cylindrica'' is an upright growing, clump forming herbaceous plant species in the genus ''Anemone'' and family Ranunculaceae.
Thimbleweed - Anemone cylindrica A few months later, it will look like this: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/77592/thimbleweed_-_anemone_cylindrica.html Habitat: It was near the edge of a pond in an overgrown area. Anemone cylindrica,Geotagged,Long-headed Windflower,Summer,United States

Appearance

Plants grow 30–100 centimetres tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. After flowering, the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20–35 millimetres 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.
Thimbleweed - Anemone cylindrica Thimbleweed is an upright plant with cylindrical clusters of fruits (achenes). When mature, the achenes have white, puffy tails, and the cluster releases them to the wind. Its root system produces a substance, protoanemonin, that inhibits growth of other plants. Habitat: It was near the edge of a pond in an overgrown area. https://www.jungledragon.com/image/77593/unknown_plant_seeds.html Anemone cylindrica,Geotagged,United States,Winter,thimbleweed

Naming

''Anemone cylindrica'' is one of several plants known as thimbleweed.
Thimbleweed - Anemone cylindrica Thimbleweed is an upright plant with cylindrical clusters of fruits (achenes). When mature, the achenes have white, puffy tails, and the cluster releases them to the wind. Its root system produces a substance, protoanemonin, that inhibits growth of other plants. Habitat: It was near the edge of a pond in an overgrown area. https://www.jungledragon.com/image/77592/unknown_plant_seeds.html Anemone cylindrica,Geotagged,United States,Winter

Distribution

''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.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderRanunculales
FamilyRanunculaceae
GenusAnemone
SpeciesA. cylindrica
Photographed in
United States of America