ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Anemone canadensis CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: RANUNCULALES FAMILY: RANUNCULACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Anemone canadensis AUTHORITY: L. COMMON NAMES: MEADOW ANEMONE SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: ANCA8 NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST FLOODPLAIN FOREST MESIC THICKETS PRAIRIE TYPICAL PRAIRIE MESIC WET-MESIC WET WETLAND BORDER OF LAKE SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: UNAVAILABLE NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: ADAMS BOONE BROWN BUREAU CALHOUN CARROLL CASS CHAMPAIGN CHRISTIAN COLES COOK CRAWFORD DEKALB DEWITT DOUGLAS DUPAGE FORD FULTON GALLATIN GREENE GRUNDY HANCOCK HENDERSON HENRY IROQUOIS JACKSON JERSEY JO DAVIESS KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL LAKE LASALLE LAWRENCE LEE LIVINGSTON LOGAN MCDONOUGH MCHENRY MCLEAN MACON MACOUPIN MADISON MARSHALL MASON MERCER MORGAN OGLE PEORIA PIATT PIKE PUTNAM ROCK ISLAND SANGAMON SCHUYLER SCOTT STARK STEPHENSON TAZEWELL VERMILION WARREN WHITESIDE WILL WINNEBAGO GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Adventitious (rhizomes) LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Opposite Basal LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Dentate Lobed (palmately) LEAF VENATION: Palmate LEAF SHAPE: Orbicular INFLORESCENCE: Solitary- few FLOWER STRUCTURE: Incomplete (no petals) FLOWER COLOR: White FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: Achene GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Occasional ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Forb LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual Vegetative FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 5 MONTH END- 9 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed in edges of woods; meadows; calcareous; prairie remnants. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: No data entered WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: WEEDINESS: Non-weedy REFERENCES: Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1967-continuing. The illustrated flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Anemone canadensis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015