Anemone canadensis
| Anemone canadensis | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Endangered in some areas
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | Ranunculaceae |
| Genus: | Anemone |
| Species: | A. canadensis |
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| Anemone canadensis L. |
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Anemone canadensis (Canada anemone, round-headed anemone, meadow anemone, crowfoot)[1] is a herbaceous perennial native to moist meadows, thickets, streambanks, and lakeshores in North America, spreading rapidly by underground rhizomes, valued for its white flowers.
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[edit] Description
Shoots with deeply divided and toothed basal leaves grow from caudices on long, thin rhizomes.
Flowers with about 5 sepals and numerous stamens bloom from late spring to summer on stems above a cluster of leaves.
Seeds are achenes, borne in a small dense head.
[edit] Uses
In former times it was used medically by North American Indigenous peoples as an astringent and as a styptic for wounds, sores, nosebleeds, and as an eyewash. The root was respected by Plains tribes and used for many ailments.
[edit] Toxicity
It is likely that most Anemones contain the caustic irritants of the Ranunculaceae family. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913). An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions: From Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian. 2. C. Scribner's sons. http://books.google.com/books?id=RZUCAAAAYAAJ. page 99
- ^ Foster, Steven and James A. Duke. Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, "Peterson Field Guides", Houghton, Mifflin 1990 edn. ISBN 0-395-92066-3
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