Plant Name
Scientific Name: Anemone tuberosa
Common Names: Tuber Anemone, Desert Anemone
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert, Upland. These wildflowers are usually found growing on rocky slopes.
Flower Color: White, Pale pink, Pale violet
Flowering Season: Winter (late), Spring
Height: To 16 inches (41 cm) tall
Description: The flowers are 1 1/2 inches (3.8 cm) across and have white, petal-like sepals with delicately-haired undersides. The flowers are followed by large, woolly, cylindrical seed heads. The leaves are dark green, hairless, finely dissected into toothed leaflets, and both basal and in a whorl midway up the stem. The stem is upright, hairless, fleshy, and it sprouts from an underground tuber.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Magnoliidae
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae – Buttercup family
Genus: Anemone L. – anemone
Species: Anemone tuberosa Rydb. – tuber anemone
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