{{short description|Species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae}} {{speciesbox |image = Anemonetuberosa.jpg |genus = Anemone |species = tuberosa |authority = Rydb. }}
'''''Anemone tuberosa''''', the '''desert anemone''' or '''tuber anemone''', is a herbaceous species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 10 to 30, sometimes {{convert|40|cm|abbr=on}} tall, from a woody-like tuber shaped like a caudex. Plants have 1 to 3 basal leaves that are 1 or 2 times ternate. The few basal leaves have long petioles and are deeply 3-parted with leaflets lacking stems or rarely with a stalk. Plants flowering early to late spring with the flowers composed of 8 to 10 sepals normally white or pink colored, {{convert|10|to|14|mm|abbr=on}} long. The plants produce one peduncle with one solitary flower or 2–5 flowered cymes. Fruits in heads fusiform in shape, with {{convert|7|–|20|cm|abbr=on}} long pedicels. Fruits called achenes measure {{convert|2.5|to|3.5|mm|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|2|to|2.5|mm|abbr=on}} wide with a rounded outline and flat in shape, densely woolly, not winged also with straight {{convert|1.5|mm|abbr=on}} long beaks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anemone tuberosa {{!}} /RHS Gardening |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/24789/anemone-tuberosa/details |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=www.rhs.org.uk |language=en-gb}}</ref>
''Anemone tuberosa'' is native to south, central and western North America, mostly in Nevada and New Mexico and Northern Mexico but also west to California and East to Texas. This spring flowering plant is found on rocky slopes and along stream banks. ''Anemone tuberosa'' is part of a species complex that includes 6 to 9 species native from south western and central USA to South America. For the most part all produce tubers or caudex-like tubers.<ref>{{cite book | last = | others = Flora of North America Editorial Committee | title = Flora of North America Vol 3, Magnoliophyta:Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 1997 | pages = 139–158 | isbn = 0-19-511246-6}}</ref>
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tuberosa Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States Category:Flora of Northwestern Mexico