This section is from the book "Field Book Of Western Wild Flowers", by Margaret Armstrong. Also available from Amazon: Field Book Of Western Wild Flowers.
An attractive plant, eight inches to a foot tall, with pretty flowers and foliage. The flowers are white, tinged with pink, less than an inch across, often downy out-side, and the head of fruit is oblong, sleek, and silky downy. This grows on dry, rocky slopes in the Grand Canyon, above the plateau.
Around Tucson the flowers are less pretty, but the foliage handsomer.

Northern Anemone-Aparviflora Three-leaved Anemone A.deltoidea. BUTTERCUP FAMILY. Ranunculaceae.
 
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