Anemone: The Wind Flowers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXd4oNwPB4UPpbeJraY_gx0uUFaDyZ5GRIpBkv4QpzDhdE6FXACJ8cGQAsTXfsD6JeQEHZg91kjO8ptHS_9vDPu7A8HT4IEbfHTFvHfM7Ur8wN3uJe1X2h2nAZB_ez3nUSMmSIUPOJgc/s1600/Anemone-flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXd4oNwPB4UPpbeJraY_gx0uUFaDyZ5GRIpBkv4QpzDhdE6FXACJ8cGQAsTXfsD6JeQEHZg91kjO8ptHS_9vDPu7A8HT4IEbfHTFvHfM7Ur8wN3uJe1X2h2nAZB_ez3nUSMmSIUPOJgc/s200/Anemone-flowers.jpg" width="200"></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Anemone</b></i> is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculaceae">Ranunculaceae</a> in the north and south temperate zones. </span>According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Greek <i>anemōnē</i> means "daughter of the wind", from <i>ánemos</i> "wind" + feminine patronymic suffix <i>-ōnē</i><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone#cite_note-3"><span></span></a></sup>, and roughly means wind flower, which signifies that the wind that blows the petal open will also, eventually, blow the dead petals away. But others suggest that this is a folk etymology,</div>

Anemone is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones. ...