Anemone multifidaPoir.

Pacific anemone

WFO wfo-0000535472 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anemone multifida, photographed by F Quiec
fig. a F Quiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205685716
Anemone multifida, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204525349
Anemone multifida, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. c Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204515562
Anemone multifida, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. d Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204477365
Anemone multifida, photographed by F Quiec
fig. e F Quiec, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205950356
Anemone multifida, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. f Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180466558
Anemone multifida, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. g Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173031000
Anemone multifida, photographed by Romi Galeota Lencina
fig. h Romi Galeota Lencina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173031167

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Anemone multifida is native: Alaska, Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Oregon, Québec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South AlaskaAlbertaArizonaBritish ColumbiaCaliforniaColoradoIdahoMaineManitobaMichiganMinnesotaMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew BrunswickNew MexicoNew YorkNewfoundlandNorth DakotaNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutOntarioOregonQuébecSaskatchewanSouth DakotaUtahVermontWashingtonWisconsinWyomingYukonArgentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Anemone multifida, 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
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
Arizona ARI
British Columbia BRC
California CAL
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Maine MAI
Manitoba MAN
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
Nevada NEV
New Brunswick NBR
New Mexico NWM
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
North Dakota NDA
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Oregon ORE
Québec QUE
Saskatchewan SAS
South Dakota SDA
Utah UTA
Vermont VER
Washington WAS
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS

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 710 in flower of 1,069 examined

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Anemone multifida 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. 710 of 1,069 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 29 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 baldensis G.Don
  • Anemone commersoniana Richardson ex Spreng.
  • Anemone globosa (Torr. & A.Gray) Nutt. ex A.Nelson
  • Anemone globosa Nutt. ex Pritz.
  • Anemone hudsoniana (DC.) Richardson
  • Anemone hudsoniana var. sanguinea Richardson
  • Anemone lanigera Gay
  • Anemone lanigera var. hudsoniana DC.
  • Anemone magellanica hort. ex Wehrh.
  • Anemone multifida f. galactiflora B.Boivin
  • Anemone multifida f. hirsuta (C.L.Hitchc.) Brayshaw
  • Anemone multifida f. leucantha Fernald
  • Anemone multifida f. multifida
  • Anemone multifida f. polysepala Fernald
  • Anemone multifida f. sanguinea (Richardson) Fernald
  • Anemone multifida subsp. saxicola (B.Boivin) W.A.Weber
  • Anemone multifida var. commersoniana (Richardson ex Spreng.) Ulbr.
  • Anemone multifida var. globosa Torr. & A.Gray
  • Anemone multifida var. hirsuta C.L.Hitchc.
  • Anemone multifida var. lanigera Ulbr.
  • Anemone multifida var. magellanica DC.
  • Anemone multifida var. multifida
  • Anemone multifida var. nowosadii B.Boivin
  • Anemone multifida var. richardsiana Fernald

and 5 more.

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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