This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Wind-Flower:
Anemone quinquefolia.
Crowfoot Family. Apr. - June.
A plant 4 - 8 inches high. Found in open woods. Canada, south to Georgia, west to Rocky Mountains.
White, or magenta tinged, solitary, 4 - 9 divisions.
In a whorl of 3 - 5, each leaf variously divided and toothed.

Wood Anemone.
 
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