Anemone cylindrica facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Anemone cylindrica |
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Anemone
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cylindrica
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Anemone cylindrica is a type of wild flower. It is also known as thimbleweed. This plant grows upright and forms clumps. It belongs to the Ranunculaceae family, which includes buttercups.
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About Thimbleweed Plants
Anemone cylindrica is a herbaceous plant. This means it has soft stems, not woody ones like trees. It grows from 30 to 100 centimeters tall. That's about 1 to 3 feet high.
What Does It Look Like?
The flowers of the thimbleweed are greenish-white. They usually bloom in early summer. You can often find them flowering until late summer.
After the flowers bloom, the plant produces fruits. These fruits grow in dense, rounded spikes. Each spike is about 20 to 35 millimeters long. That's roughly the size of a thimble!
How Seeds Spread
The fruits are called achenes. When they are ripe, they are gray-white in color. They have fuzzy, woolly styles. These fuzzy parts help the seeds blow away in the wind. This is how the plant spreads its seeds to new places.
Where Does It Grow?
Anemone cylindrica is native to north central North America. You can find it growing in many different places. It likes prairies and dry, open woods. It also grows along roadsides and in pastures.
Why Is It Called Thimbleweed?
Anemone cylindrica is one of several plants known as thimbleweed. This common name comes from the shape of its fruit clusters. They look a bit like an old-fashioned sewing thimble.
See also
In Spanish: Anemone cylindrica para niños
