Anemone caroliniana - Carolina Anemone

Basal leaves compound, fully divided into 3 or more leaflets. Stem unbranched, 0.5-4 dm tall, bearing 1 flower. 6 Sepals (5-) 8-20, cream-white, violet, blue, pink, or green; involucral leaves sessile; [subgenus Anemone; section Anemone; group Coronaria]. Stem densely pubescent above the involucre, glabrous to very sparsely pubescent beneath the involucre; involucre at or below the midpoint of the stem at anthesis; plant with horizontal rhizomes; involucral leaflets oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long; achene bodies < 1.5-2.5 (-3.0) mm long.

Anemone caroliniana: Walter, Prairie Anemone, Carolina Anemone. Pd (GA, NC, SC): clayey soils of post oak andblackjack oak woodlands (Iredell soils), wet meadows; rare (GA Special Concern, NC Rare, SC Rare). Ranging primarily in the Midwest, north in the Southeast to disjunct locations in c. and sc. GA, c. SC, c. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), and sc. NC. [= FNA, K; < A. caroliniana Walter – RAB, C, F, G, S, W

All text taken fromWeakley's Flora