anemone: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	pasqueflower • windflower • Anemone

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Pasqueflower (Anemone patens).

Cluster of pale yellow alpine pasqueflowers (Pulsatilla alpina) blooming in a grassy mountain meadow in the Dolomites, Italy.

Wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia).

yellow woodland anemone

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