Anemone lyallii

Little mountain thimbleweed

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Little mountain thimbleweed is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada in moist shaded slopes and subalpine ridges at elevations of 100 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces white, pink, or blue flowers with 5 to 7 delicate sepals approximately 3.5 to 8 millimeters long. Growing 5 to 30 centimeters tall with a spreading rhizome, it develops an upright stem with minimal foliage. Its distinctive leaf emerges with a long petiole 5 to 8 centimeters long, featuring a terminal leaflet that is ovate or oblanceolate with crenate to serrate margins on the upper half. The plant produces a compact, spherical fruit cluster with individual fruit bodies about 3 to 4 millimeters long and slightly white-hairy.

Habitat: Moist shaded slopes, subalpine ridges

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 100-1900 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, n SN

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