One of the showiest and most beautiful wildflowers of the fringe boreal forest zones of temperate North America. The root was one of the most highly prized wound medicines of the Omaha and Ponca Indians. One myth tell us that anemones sprung up from the tears that Venus shed over the body of Adonis. Art and legend from the artist's book 'Flowers, Forests, and Folklore' unpublished at this time.