Observations by jjones09

The Anemone piperi, also known as Windflower, is from the Ranunculaceae family or otherwise known as the Buttercup family. The kingdom of this family is plantae, all plants in this kingdom are Eukaryotic, and so they are all multicellular and have membranes. The taxonomy of the Anemone piperi is Plantae, then Vascular plants-Clade Trichophyte, Flowering plants-Phylum Magnoliophyta, Dicots-Class Magnoliopsida, Order-Ranunculales, Family (Buttercups)-Ranunculaceae, Windflowers-Genus-Anemone, and Anemone –species-piperi. Anemone piperi is an angiosperm so it produces seeds and has flowers. Characteristics of the Anemone piperi are showy petals, dissected basal leaves, five to six sepals, dark brown rhizomes, and found in shady woods. The phenotypic traits are the showy petals, basal leaves, dark brown rhizomes and the habitat where it was collected from was the shady moist woods. Now for the reproduction processes, buttercups reproduce sexually. The flowers are pollinated and produce seeds that germinate into new plants. The organs for this process are the male sex organ, stamen, and the female sex organ, pistil. The GPS location from where this flower was collected is 45°34'35.5"N 117°16'00.7"E. One observable characteristic of the Anemone piperi is the white petals. This is the only flower in the collection that has white petals, while the other specimens had yellow and purple flowers. The observations used to identify this species is the height, which is 10-35cm, the number of stamens, which are 35-55, the basal leaves at the top of the plant, and the rhizome at the bottom. The range of the Anemone piperi is usually Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. The variation that was observed was that there wasn’t exactly thirty-five stamens it was just a little under. All of the species that were collected where found in the moist, shady woods a few miles apart from each other. They were also surrounded by other flowers such as Iridaceae, Violaceae, and Scrophulariaceae. Some adaptations is the color of the petals, since these petals are a lighter shade they may want to attract certain bugs for pollination and ward off others that are not attracted to lighter shades. Other adaptation is that it grows in the shade instead of the sun like some other species. The pressures that may have caused these adaptations are the many trees surrounding the flower and the different bugs and weather in the area that they are growing in. The species must have adapted to these conditions to survive.