Anemone cylindricaA.Gray

candle anemone

WFO wfo-0000535215 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205633684
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. b Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166914826
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. c Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162333441
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. d Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157915175
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. e Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 151182270
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. f Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153644074
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Reuven Martin
fig. g Reuven Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145230176
Anemone cylindrica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. h Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139865210

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Anemone cylindrica is native: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming AlbertaArizonaBritish ColumbiaColoradoConnecticutIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasMaineManitobaMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMissouriMontanaNebraskaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth DakotaOhioOntarioPennsylvaniaQuébecSaskatchewanSouth DakotaVermontWisconsinWyoming Rhode I.
Native distribution of Anemone cylindrica, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alberta ABT NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
British Columbia BRC
Colorado COL
Connecticut CNT
Idaho IDA
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Maine MAI
Manitoba MAN
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Missouri MSO
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New Mexico NWM
New York NWY
North Dakota NDA
Ohio OHI
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Saskatchewan SAS
South Dakota SDA
Vermont VER
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO

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 135 in flower of 341 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Anemone cylindrica 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. 135 of 341 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 2 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 cylindrica f. albida Farw.
  • Anemone cylindrica f. cylindrica

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.

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