Common name: Western Anemone / White or Western Pasqueflower; “Moptop”
Family: Ranunculaceae
Information: Found in alpine and subalpine meadows as well as rocky slopes. It flowers immediately after the snow has melted, and is well known for its hairy form (Pojar & MacKinnon 2014).
Photos:
Top: A slope top in the Manning Park alpine area ca. 1950 m. Growing season somewhat later this year due to cool rainy spring conditions, so flowering was in session on this date. S Wood -N Hewitt, July 8 2020.
Bottom Right: In seed in wet meadow in South Chilcotin Mtns. Provincial Park at an approx. elevation of 2050 m. No individuals still in flower visible on this date in 2019. July 29 2019.
Bottom left: In seed near the top of a slope in the Manning Park alpine area at an approx. elevation of 1950 m. No individuals still in flower visible on this date in 2019. July 9 2019. N Hewitt.
Sources and additional resources:
Pojar, J. & MacKinnon, A. (2014). Plants of Coastal British Columbia: Including Washington, Oregon & Alaska. Vancouver: Lone Pine Publishing.
Klinkenberg, Brian. (Ed.) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Anemone%20occidentalis. Accessed: 2020-05-12.
