Pollinating insects often cuddle in the warm center of the flowers. NOTE: Dense silky hairs throughout the plant help trap warm air in the spring, and the parabolic flowers focus warming sunlight to hasten pollen development. NM COUNTIES: North to south through central NM mountains in mid- to high elevation habitats: Bernalillo, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Sandoval, Socorro, Taos, Torrance. cylindrica, in mid-elevation, moist habitats north to south through NM mountains, has 3/4 inch wide flowers, silky-hairy basal leaves, and cottony-tufted seed heads. tuberosa, in southern NM, has white to ppinkish flowers and hairless, compound basal leaves. multifida, in northern NM, has pink to maroon flowers and silky-hairy, compound basal leaves.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Five Anemone species in NM: Cutleaf Anemone, A. RANGE: AK, CO, ID, IL, IA, KS, MI, MN, MT, NE, NM, ND, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY Canada. HABITAT: Sandy, rocky soils dry open woodlands ponderosa-oak transition belt to sub-alpine zone. The 5–8 oval leaves are palmately divided into 3 leaflets, each deeply segmented into narrow lobes. LEAVES: Basal leaves on 2–4-inch long (5–10 cm) stems (petioles). Each long flower stem has one flower and a whorl of narrow, stalkless leaves (involucral bracts) beneath the flower. Dense, shaggy hairs cover the back side of the sepals. Flowers 1 1/2–3-inches wide (38–76 mm) with 5–8, white to pale blue, oblong, petal-like sepals surrounding a column with 100+ yellow stamens. Various sources place this species in the Pusatilla genus.įLOWERS: April–June. Note the villous, shaggy, hairs that cover the plant, including the back side of the petal-like sepals. Among the first plants to emerge in the spring, these dainty flowers bust through the leaf litter with 6–15-inch tall stems and dainty whitish, light-blue, cup-shaped flowers.

Anemona ponta rosa