Anemone vitifolia
Buch.-Ham. ex DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 210. 1817; Hook. f. &
Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 8. 1872.
Herbs, stout, erect, branched, nearly 1 m high, white pubescent; rootstock woody;
stems branched, erect, up to 1 m high. Radical leaves simple, orbicular-cordate, acute
at apex, sharply toothed, deeply 3 - 7-lobed, 7 -
20 cm across, glabrous above, densely white-tomentose beneath; lobes variously cut, sharply toothed; petioles 15 -
50 cm long.
Scapes many-flowered, 20 -
50 cm long, bearing in the upper part an involucre of stalked
bracts similar to leaves; umbellate cyme usually with 3 branches, one bearing a single
flower and the other again ternately divided and involucellate. Flowers white, large, 3 -
5 cm across. Sepals 5 -
8, ovate-elliptic, obtuse or acute, 1.5 -
2 x 0.7 -
1.2 cm, petaloid,
white inside, purplish and silky pubescent outside. Stamens many. Carpels many, free.
Achenes ellipsoid, ca 1 mm long, free, in large globose heads, densely covered by white
woolly hairs when ripe.
Fl. July - Oct.; Fr. Sept. - Dec.
Distrib. India: Edges of evergreen temperate forests and along open grassy slopes, 1500 - 3000 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh (Misbmi Hills).
Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, N. Myanmar and W. China.
Notes. Chromosome no. n = 7 (Mehra and Remanandan in Cytologia 37: 290. 1972) for a population from Bhagi, Simla in Himachal Pradesh).
Fl. July - Oct.; Fr. Sept. - Dec.
Distrib. India: Edges of evergreen temperate forests and along open grassy slopes, 1500 - 3000 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh (Misbmi Hills).
Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, N. Myanmar and W. China.
Notes. Chromosome no. n = 7 (Mehra and Remanandan in Cytologia 37: 290. 1972) for a population from Bhagi, Simla in Himachal Pradesh).