RANUNCULACEAE - - Buttercup Family

Anemone americana (A.P. de Candolle) H. Hara — Round-lobed Hepatica

Synonym = Hepatica americana (A.P. de Candolle) Ker-Gawler

Habitat:

Moist forests. The two North American taxa of "Hepatica" seem entirely distinct in our area; they have sometimes been described as hybridizing freely or merging indistinguishably, but this seems inaccurate. They are also both related to the European H. nobilis P. Miller. Steyermark & Steyermark (1960) chose to treat the three entities as varieties of H. nobilis; I (Alan Weakley) prefer to retain them at the specific level, a position also suported and carefully supported by Yatskievych (2013). I concur.

Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.

USDA, NRCS. 2018. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, Various Dates). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC 27401-4901 USA.