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Tuber Anemone
Anemone tuberosa
  
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About Tuber Anemone (Anemone tuberosa) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Anemone tuberosa (desert anemone or tuber anemone) is a herbaceous plant species in the genus Anemone and family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 10 to 30, sometimes 40 centimeter tall, from a woody-like tuber shaped like a caudex. Plants with 1 to 3 basal leaves that are 1 or 2 times ternate. The basal leaves few with long petioles and deeply 3-parted with leaflets lacking stems or rarely with a stalk. Plants flowering early to late spring with the flowers composed of 8 to 10 sepals normally white or pink colored, 10 to 14 millimeter long. The plants produce one peduncle with one solitary flower or 2-5 flowered cymes. Fruits in heads fusiform in shape, with 7-20 centimeter long pedicels. Fruits called achenes measure 2.5-3.5 millimeter long and 2-2.5 millimeter wide with a rounded outline and flat in shape, densely woolly, not winged also with straight 1.5 millimeter long beaks. Anemone tuberosa is native to south central western North America mostly in Nevada and New Mexico and Northern Mexico but also west to California and East to Texas. This spring flowering plant is found on rocky slopes and along stream banks. Anemone tuberosa is part of a species complex that includes 6 to 9 species native from south western and central USA to South America For the most part all produce tubers or caudex-like tubers.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Perennial herb

Size
Size
0.33 - 1.3 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
White, Pink

Flowering Season
Flowering Season
Spring

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun, Part Shade

Moisture
Moisture
Very Low

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Propagation
Propagation?
For propagating by seed: No treatment. (Emery and Frey 1971).

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Rocky slopes, ledges

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 3.8" - 58.4", Summer Precipitation: 0.67" - 2.98", Coldest Month: 30.3" - 60.4", Hottest Month: 50.3" - 87.2", Humidity: 2.58" - 39.91", Elevation: 845" - 7998"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Desert Windflower


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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