Alpine Anemone

Alpine Anemone

　　Alpine Anemone

　　Alpine Anemone, also known as: Double-Bottle Chrysanthemum in Chrysanthemum Shape.

　　A perennial herb. The rhizome is brownish-yellow, with numerous fine roots and traces of scales. The stem is erect, reaching 8–26 cm in height. The basal leaves are biternate compound leaves, with petioles about 13 cm long; the leaflets are oblong to ovate, tapering to a point, usually with the middle leaflet larger and having a short petiole, and occasionally each leaflet may be deeply divided into three or have notches and coarse serrations, with a few white soft hairs on both surfaces or the hairs falling off early. The flower stem is slender, much taller than the basal leaves, bearing a single flower at the apex, with about three bracts located roughly one-quarter from the top, the bracts being leaf-like and biternate; the sepals are petaloid, 8–12 in number, oblong, about 1.3 cm long and about 4 mm wide, white or pale purple; stamens are numerous, with elliptical anthers and thread-like filaments; carpels are numerous, separate, arranged in a spiral pattern, covered with short white hairs. The achene is ovate or crescent-shaped, about 0.4 cm long, grayish-brown, densely covered with white soft hairs, often with the persistent style attached. There is one seed. Flowering period: April to June.