General: Perennial creeping herb, the stems prostrate, buried, slender, rooting at nodes, smooth; flowering shoots 2-15 cm tall.
Leaves: Appearing to be mostly basal, persistent, kidney-shaped, 3-parted, 1-3 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, the segments round-toothed or shallowly lobed, tips rounded; long-stalked.
Flowers: Inflorescence of solitary, axillary flowers, the flower stalks naked, rarely leafy; receptacle smooth; petals 5-8, distinct, yellow, 5-6 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, clawed, nectary on upper surface, the scale smooth; sepals 3, spreading to bent back, soon deciduous, 4-7 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, smooth; stamens 10-12; pistils 6-20.
Fruits: Grouped in a hemispheric head 5-7 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, the achenes egg-shaped, 3.8- 4.2 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, smooth; beaks persistent, lanceolate, 1.6-2.4 mm long, curved, tips hooked.
Notes: At first glance this species could be mistaken for Anemone richardsonii.
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The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
Moist to wet bogs, swamps and forests in the montane zone; common E of the Coast-Cascade Mountains N of 53degreeN; circumpolar, N to AK, YT and NT, E to Greenland and S to ME, MN and MI; N Eurasia.