Anemone richardsonii Hook.
 
FamilyRanunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae
DescriptionStems from thin, filiform, horizontal rhizome, from which leaves emerge each some distance from the next; stem pubescent below; leaves 3-lobed, rounded-reni- form in outline, the lobes shallowly divided and acutely toothed; involucre of 2 or 3 sessile, sharply toothed leaves; flowers single; sepals bright yellow; fruiting head globose; achenes with very long beak, recurved at tip.
EcologyThickets, meadows, snowbeds in the mountains, to at least 1,000 meters. De- scribed from Hudson Bay, Rocky Mountains, Unalaska, Siberia.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.