Anemone oregana
Blue Windflower

Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill; wooded hillside; flowering in April- early May

Flowers:

5 sepals, blue, 5-20 mm, more or less glabrous; sepal color varies with geography, they can also be white or reddish; petals lacking; number of stamens mostly 35-100

Fruit:

cluster ovoid to spheric, 8-15 mm, puberulent, styles less than 1.5 mm

Leaves:

cauline leaves ternately compound

Plant:

widely rhizomatous; 10-25 cm, generally 1 stemmed

Habitat:

moist woods to open hillsides

Distribution of species:

mostly east Cascades from Chelan County to the Columbia River Gorge, also North Cascades and the Blue Mountains

Distribution of genus:

more or less 100 species: temperate worldwide