Thimbleweed  (also Long-Headed Thimbleweed)

Anemone cylindrica

This plant produces white or greenish-white flowers of 5 sepals, often pitched forward, about 3/4 or 1 inch across, with a raised center and many anthers with yellow tips. Each flower is on its own stem and after blooming the central part becomes an elongated green seed-head, 1 inch or more in length (see photo lower left).  Foliage is profuse; leaves, on long stalks near the bottom of the plant, are deeply divided into 3 or 5 lobes, each of which is itself divided and often subdivided into pointed sub-lobes.

1-2 feet,  sun-partial sun.

Spring (May-June).

12 June 2020.

Thimbleweed, 12 June 2020.

The tall 'thimbles' or seed-heads after the flowers bloom out. Taller and thinner than the seed-heads of Tall Thimbleweed (A. virginiana).

16 May 2020.