Anemone multifida var. multifida

Pacific anemone, cut-leaf anemone, cut-leaf anemone

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Pacific anemone is a rare (CNPS 2B.2) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges (Marble Mountains) and northern Sierra Nevada (The Dardanelles, Alpine County) on open, gravelly or rocky subalpine slopes at elevations of 1,700 to 2,750 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces flowers in colors ranging from green to yellow, blue, purple, red, or white, with 5 to 9 sepals 6 to 17 millimeters long. Growing 40 to 70 centimeters tall with ascending to erect caudex branches and soft-shaggy-hairy stems, it develops a distinctive branching structure. Its compound leaves are 1 to 2-ternate, with terminal leaflets broadly diamond-shaped to obovate, 2.5 to 4.5 centimeters long and having dissected margins in the distal third. The fruit is a woolly to densely silky-hairy ellipsoid body 3 to 4 millimeters long with a short 1 to 2 millimeter beak.

Habitat: Open, gravelly or rocky slopes, +- subalpine

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 1700-2750 m

Bioregions: KR (Marble Mtns), n SNH (The Dardanelles, Alpine Co.)

California counties: Siskiyou, Alpine

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.