Anemone carolinianaWalter

Carolina anemone

WFO wfo-0000535164 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Robert Hoard
fig. a Robert Hoard, CC0 1.0 / 2021-03-31 / obs. 118322095
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. b Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118332344
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Clifton Ladd, C.W.B.
fig. c Clifton Ladd, C.W.B., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 32979717
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Laura Clark
fig. d Laura Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181702495
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Laura Clark
fig. e Laura Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181702932
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by John Michael
fig. f John Michael, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181257114
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Emily Geest
fig. g Emily Geest, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118948070
Anemone caroliniana, photographed by Cody Stricker
fig. h Cody Stricker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114582480

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Anemone caroliniana is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin AlabamaArkansasGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasLouisianaMinnesotaMississippiMissouriNebraskaOklahomaSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasWisconsin
Native distribution of Anemone caroliniana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Louisiana LOU
Minnesota MIN
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Nebraska NEB
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
South Dakota SDA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Wisconsin WIS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 392 in flower of 417 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Anemone caroliniana observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 392 of 417 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anemone caroliniana f. violacea Clute
  • Anemone hartiana Raf.
  • Anemone tenella Pursh

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.