How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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Rue Anemone

Anemonella thalictroides. Crowfoot Family.

Stem.--Six to twelve inches high. Leaves.--Divided into rounded leaflets. Flowers.--White or pinkish; clustered. Calyx.--Of five to ten petal-like sepals. Corolla.--None. Stamens.--Numerous. Pistils.--Four to fifteen. The rue anemone seems to linger especially about the spreading roots of old trees. It blossoms with the wood anemone, from which it differs in bearing its flowers in clusters.

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