The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Key to ANEMONE

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Sepals 18–30 mm; styles in fruit 20–30(35) mm, plumose
A. occidentalis
  1' Sepals 5–25 mm; styles in fruit < 5 mm, glabrous to puberulent
 
    2. Basal leaf generally 1; cauline leaves simple or 1-ternate, blade or leaflet crenate to lobed; plant from rhizome; fruit glabrous to puberulent
 
      3. Cauline leaves simple, ± sessile; sepals 15–25 mm
A. deltoidea
      3' Cauline leaves generally 1-ternate, petioles 8–40 mm; sepals 5–20 mm
A. oregana
    2' Basal leaves few–many; cauline leaves dissected; plant from tuber atop slender caudex or from branched caudex; fruit densely woolly or silky
 
      4. Plant from tuber atop slender caudex; fruit cluster oblong to elliptic, (15)20–30 mm; eastern Desert Mountains
A. tuberosa
      4' Plant from branched caudex; fruit cluster generally ovoid to spheric, 10–20 mm; Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada
 
        5. Segments of basal leaves linear, generally < 1.5 mm wide; cauline petioles generally short; sepals white to bluish
A. drummondii
        5' Segments of basal leaves oblong to lanceolate, generally 2–4 mm wide; cauline petioles generally ± 0; sepals yellowish to purplish
A. multifida


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