Peacock Anemone

Anemone pavonina

Anemone pavonina is a plant from the Mediterranean (France to Turkey) where it occurs in open stony places.
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Appearance

Up to 50 cm tall, though often less. Basal leaves long-stalked, biternate, with shallowly lobed segments, generally rather glaucous; stem leaves in a singly whorl, linear to lanceolate, usually undivided. Flowers solitary, 3-6 cm across, scarlet, pink, bluish or purple, often with a pale, yellowish or whitish zone towards the centre; the petals eight to twelve, elliptic, spreading widely apart. Achenes densely woolly.
Often confused with A. coronaria, but readily distinguished by its undivided stem leaves and the narrower and generally more numerous petals. The two species can often grow together in the wild, but intermediates do not appear to occur.

Distribution

Central and eastern Mediterranean from southwestern France eastwards.

Habitat

Rocky and grassy habitats, olive groves, vineyards.

References:

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderRanunculales
FamilyRanunculaceae
GenusAnemone
SpeciesAnemone pavonina
Photographed in
Greece