Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( White ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Ten-Petal Anemone, Tenpetal Thimbleweed, Texas Anemone, Southern Anemone, Glade Flower, Windflower (Anemone berlandieri), Ranunculaceae Family, native, perennial, blooms February through April

Texas distribution:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/vpt_map_name?reg=2,3,4,5,...

Ten-petal nemone can be found growing natively on open grasslands, pastures, prairies, hillsides, openings and edges of woodlands and granite outcrops. It grows in well-drained sandy, calcareous or limestone soils of the South Texas Plains and the Edwards Plateau Regions. It is an is an upright perennial that attains a height of between 4 and 16 inches when flowering. The usually white (may be pink, blue or violet), 1 3/4 " in diameter flower head has no petals. The 10-20 sepals are petal-like. The leaves are divided into three shallowly toothed leaflets. The leaves are occasionally eaten by white-tailed deer. Ten-petal anemone is often confused with Carolina anemone (Anemone caroliniana). Some facts that may assist with distinguishing between the two follow:

Ten-petal anemone has a stem that is hairy along its entire lenght unlike Carolina anemone that is hairy to the leaves but not below them.

Ten-petal anemone has a whorl of leaves halfway up stem unlike Carolina anemone that has a whorl of leaves right below the bloom but not half way up the stem.

Ten-petal anemone has a tuber with no stolons unlike Carolina anemone that has a bulb-like tuber and has stolons or rhizomes present.

Caution: All parts of this plant are toxic when fresh (only if eaten in large amounts). Contact with fresh sap may cause inflammation and blistering.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/63683/index.html

A bloom at the first of April; photo shows leaves half the way up the stem ...