[1] This wildflower is a squat perennial with short erect stems and small, soft, wrinkled leaves while in flower.

After flowering the leaves expand fully and reveal a multiply ternate dissected form with ultimate segments oblong to linear and a few mm wide.

Each clumping plant produces several showy flowers, each with five to eight petal-like sepals but no petals.

[1] Anemone drummondii is native to western North America from California to Alaska.

It is found in mountainous environments such as the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and the Rocky Mountains, extending from open coniferous forests to rocky slopes at alpine elevations.