ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Anemone quinquefolia CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: RANUNCULALES FAMILY: RANUNCULACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Anemone quinquefolia AUTHORITY: L. COMMON NAMES: WOOD ANEMONE SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: ANQU NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST MESIC THICKETS PRAIRIE TYPICAL PRAIRIE MESIC SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: CENTRAL Upland oak White/Black/Northern Red- Oak NORTHERN Northern Hardwoods Sugar Maple-Basswood NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: BOONE CARROLL COOK DEKALB DUPAGE HARDIN JO DAVIESS KANE KANKAKEE KENDALL LAKE LASALLE LEE MCHENRY MENARD OGLE STEPHENSON WHITESIDE WILL WINNEBAGO GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Adventitious (rhizomes) LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Whorled Basal LEAF TYPE: Compound (palmately) LEAF MARGIN: Dentate Lobed (palmately) LEAF SHAPE: Obovate INFLORESCENCE: Solitary- few FLOWER STRUCTURE: Incomplete (no petals) FLOWER COLOR: Violet White FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: Achene GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Forb LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual Vegetative FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 4 MONTH END- 5 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed in prairie remnants; clearings. 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. 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 quinquefolia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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