windflower

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several anemones.

See: crocus

Quotations

1952

The widespread anemones or wind flowers generally have a vasal group of toothed or lobed hairy leaves and one or two leaf whorls on the slender stem.

1963

[The] windflower . . . is commonly called by this name in the cattle country, and crocus on the more eastern prairie.