Anemone Lyallii And Friend

Day 225: Anemone lyallii (Lyall's Anemone) was thought to be relatively uncommon in the Park until Team Biota discovered two healthy populations in two widely separated locations. It is distinguished in the field from its cousin Anemone oregana by a slightly different leaf structure and by the number of stamens in its flower (A. oregana has 35-100 as opposed to lyallii's 12-20). The flower can be white, blue or pink. Although oregana is larger than lyallii, both are significantly smaller than the familiar Western Anemone (A. occidentalis). Lyallii is the smallest of the three, standing only a few inches high.