Anemone polyanthes - Many Flowered Anemone

Many Flowered Anemone is a stout perennial herb which has commonly been confused with Four Petal Anemone. Flowering stems are 25-60 cm high, grooved, densely hairy. Flower-cluster-stalks are several, sometimes with short flower-stalks, upto 2 cm, with an involucel similar to the involucre, but reduced in size and degree of partition. Flowers are borne in umbels, are white, about 2-3 cm across, with a contrasting circle of anthers in the center. Sepals are ovate, slightly tapering to obovate, hairy outside. Leaf-stalks of radical leaves are nearly as long as the flowering stem, or much shorter, even more densely hairy. Blade upto 8 cm in diameter, nearly round to kidney-shaped, with a narrow sinus at the base, the 3 primary segments fused for about one third, again deeply trifid (till the middle), or the lateral ones 2-fid, margin deeply incised, toothed to lobed, teeth or lobes shortly awned, covered by long appressed hairs on both surfaces but more densely on the upper side. Involucral leaves are 3, stalkless, free to the base, deeply 3-fid, the lobes incised. Many Flowered Anemone is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to Bhutan to NE India, at altitudes of 2400-4300 m. Flowering: May-July.