Anemone cylindrica

Native

Dry to moderate moisture. Open woods, prairies.

June to August

White

1′ to 3′

There are 3 to 10 leaves in a whorl near the base of the flowering stalks, and no stem leaves below that. The leaves are conspicuously stalked.

There are 2 to 6 slender, 4″ to 12″ long flower stalks originating at the top of the stem. There are no leaf-like bracts on the flower stalks.

The flowers have usually 5, sometimes 6, white petal-like sepals and no petals.

The thimble-like fruit is densely wooly, narrowly cylinder-shaped, ⅓″ wide or less, and at least twice as long as it is wide.

Tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) has a shorter, more prickly, thimble-like fruit, ⅓″ to ½″ wide, and ¾″ to 1″ long. It has only 3 leaves in a whorl at the base of the flowering stalk. There is a pair of leaf-like bracts on at least one flower stalk.