Anemone occidentalis

Western anemone

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Western anemone is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada in open, rocky alpine slopes at elevations of 1,200 to 3,200 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces white to purple flowers with 5 to 7 showy sepals 15 to 30 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall, it develops a complex leaf structure with soft, shaggy-hairy foliage. Its leaves are intricately divided into 1-ternate or 1-2 pinnately lobed segments, with terminal leaflets 3 to 6 centimeters long and narrow linear segments about 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The fruit develops into a spheric aggregate with a curved, plumose beak 20 to 40 millimeters long, densely covered in woolly hairs.

Habitat: Open, rocky slopes, alpine

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: 1200-3200 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SN

California counties: Fresno, Trinity, Siskiyou, Alpine, San Bernardino, Shasta, Madera, El Dorado, Tulare, Mariposa, Tehama, Butte, Mono, Nevada, Lassen, Placer, Tuolumne

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