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Ranunculaceae

 28-Anemone patens habit

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Found all across the northern parts of North America, Anemone patens (American pasque flower) has flowers that follow the sun as it moves across the sky (this is shown in the video "Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind").

NOTE: some authors place the pasque flowers in the genus Pulsatilla.

Photo by K. R. Robertson at Harlem Hills Nature Preserve, Loves Park, Winnebago County, Illinois, the largest gravel hill prairie remaining in the state.
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