Anemone drummondii var. drummondii

Drummond's anemone

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Drummond's anemone is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada in rocky slopes and conifer forest at elevations of 1,200 to 3,350 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white to pale blue flowers with 5 to 9 sepals 8 to 20 millimeters long. Growing 10 to 25 centimeters tall with a branched caudex and soft-hairy stems, it develops delicate, softly shaggy 2-ternate leaves with dissected leaflet margins. Its intricate leaves feature terminal leaflets 0.5 to 3 centimeters long with narrow linear segments, creating a complex and feathery foliage structure. The fruit develops as a woolly, spherical aggregate 10 to 15 millimeters long with a straight 2 to 4 millimeter beak.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, conifer forest, alpine

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1200-3350 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SN

California counties: Plumas, Alpine, Del Norte, Shasta, Tuolumne, Trinity, Siskiyou, Mono, Inyo

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