Anemone narcissiflora, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 218

9. A. narcissiflora L. , Sp. Pl. 542 (1753) .

20-40 cm, pubescent. Stock stout. Leaves deeply palmately divided; petioles long. Cauline leaves sessile, deeply cut, segments narrowly linear. Inflorescence umbellate, with 3-8 flowers. Flowers 2-3 (-4) cm in diameter, white, sometimes pinkish outside; pedicels 3-4 cm. Perianth-segments 5-6, obovate. Anthers yellow. In = 14. Mountains of S. and C. Europe; Ural. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (N, C, W).

Variable in E. Europe and still more so in Asia, and probably divisible into a number of subspecies or closely related species, but a thorough review of the whole complex is needed.

A. laxa (Ulbr.) Juz. in Komarov, Fl. U.R.S.S. 7: 738 (1937), from W. Ukraine, is very like 9 but has straight (not curved), leaf-segments. A. biarmiensis Juz. , loc. cit. (1937) from N. E. Russia is also very closely related to 9, but has 3 (not 5) stalked (not sessile) primary divisions of the leaves.