TEN-PETAL ANEMONE
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Anemone berlandieri  Pritz.
[=Anemone heterophylla Nutt.]
Clark County, Kansas (photo by Marion McGlohon)
Perennial
Height: 8-24 inches
Family: Ranunculaceae - Buttercup Family
Flowering Period:   March, April, May
Stems: Erect, simple, pubescent.
Leaves: Basal leaves (1-)3-6(-9); petiole 1.2 to 8 inches; blade 1-2-ternate, surfaces pubescent; terminal leaflet ovate to obovate, .4 to 2 inches, margins crenate to serrate; lateral leaflets unlobed or once lobed.
Inflorescences: Terminal, 1-flowered; peduncles villous; involucre borne above middle of scape, bracts 3, simple, sessile, obtriangular, .4 to 2 inches, margins 3-lobed, lobes linear, margins incised.
Flowers: Radially symmetric: sepals 7-25, outside blue to violet, inside white, oblong to narrowly elliptic, .6 to .8 inch long, 1/12 to 1/6 inch wide; petals 0; stamens 60-70; pistils many.
Fruits: Fruiting heads cylindric, 2/5 to 1 inch long, 1/5 to 2/5 inch wide; achenes elliptic, 1/10 to 1/7 inch, flat, not winged, densely woolly; beak curved, .05 to .09 inch.
Habitat: Mixed-grass prairies
Distribution: Counties bordering Oklahoma in south-central Kansas.
Origin: Native
Comments: Named for French naturalist Jean Louis Berlandier. The common name ten-petal anemone is misleading because the plant has no petals, only petal-like sepals and the number of sepals may range from 7 to 25.

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