Thimbleweed (other)
Thimbleweed is the common name of any of several plants with seed heads resembling a thimble. Species called thimbleweed include: *'' Rudbeckia laciniata'' *''Anemone cylindrica'' *'' Anemone hupehensis'' *''Anemone nemorosa'' *''Anemone virginiana'' Thimbleweed may also refer to: *''Thimbleweed Park ''Thimbleweed Park'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick for Linux, macOS, Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Android, and Amazon Luna. The game was revealed on November 18, 2014, al ...

Thimble
A thimble is a small pitted cup worn on the finger that protects it from being pricked or poked by a needle while sewing. The Old English word , the ancestor of thimble, is derived from Old English , the ancestor of the English word ''thumb''. History Pre-17th century As the purpose of a thimble is to prevent discomfort while sewing by providing a barrier between fingertips and the blunt end of a needle, it is likely that the earliest thimbles were created closely following the invention of sewing. According to the United Kingdom Detector Finds Database, thimbles dating to the 10th century have been found in England, and thimbles were in widespread use there by the 14th century. Although there are isolated examples of thimbles made of precious metals—Elizabeth I is said to have given one of her ladies-in-waiting a thimble set with precious stones—the vast majority of metal thimbles were made of brass. Medieval thimbles were either cast brass or made from hammered sheet. ...
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Rudbeckia Laciniata
''Rudbeckia laciniata'', the cutleaf coneflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America, where it is widespread in both Canada and the United States. Its natural habitat is wet sites in flood plains, along stream banks, and in moist forests. Common names other than cutleaf coneflower include cutleaf, goldenglow, green-headed coneflower, tall coneflower, sochan and thimbleweed. The Latin specific epithet ''laciniata'' refers to the pinnately divided leaves. Description It is a robust herbaceous perennial plant growing up to tall. It has broadly ovate and somewhat glaucous leaves that are often deeply dissected. The alternate leaves are usually divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The smooth or hairy leaf blade is simple or one to two-pinnate. The leaflets are lobed three to eleven times. The leaf margin is smooth to roughly serrated. The lower leaves are long and inches wide. The upper leaves are long and wide. Long rhiz ...
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Anemone Cylindrica
''Anemone cylindrica'' is an upright growing, clump forming herbaceous species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. After flowering, the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes long. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind. ''Anemone cylindrica'' is native to north central North America where it can be found growing in prairies, in dry open woods, along roadsides and in pastures. ''Anemone cylindrica'' is one of several plants known as thimbleweed.John HiltyThimbleweedawww.illinoiswildflowers.info/ref> References

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Anemone Hupehensis
''Eriocapitella hupehensis'', a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, is native to Asia. The specific epithet ''hupehensis'', which means "from Hupeh (Hupei, Hubei) province, China", refers to a region where the species is known to occur. In Chinese, it is called dǎ pò wǎn huā huā (打破碗花花), which means "broken bowl flower". Description ''Eriocapitella hupehensis'' is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rhizome-like root structure. It is a clump-forming plant with 3–5 basal leaves, each with a petiole long. The leaf blades are ternate with a central leaflet long and wide. The lateral leaflets are similar to but smaller than the central leaflet. The stem is long, occasionally up to long. A whorl of 3 leaves (technically bracts) wraps around the stem. The stem leaves are similar in appearance to the basal leaves but somewhat smaller. The inflorescence is a cyme with 2 or 3 branches and a primary flower stalk long. E ...
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Anemone Nemorosa
''Anemonoides nemorosa'' (syn. ''Anemone nemorosa''), the wood anemone, is an early-spring flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe. Other common names include windflower, European thimbleweed, and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of the leaves. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing tall. Description ''Anemonoides nemorosa'' is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant less than in height. The compound basal leaves are palmate or ternate (divided into three lobes). They grow from underground root-like stems called rhizomes and die back down by mid summer (summer dormant). The plants start blooming in spring, March to May in the British Isles soon after the foliage emerges from the ground. The flowers are solitary, held above the foliage on short stems, with a whorl of three palmate or palmately-lobed leaflike bracts beneath. The flowers are diameter, with six or seven (and on rare occasions eight to ten) tepals (petal-like segments) ...
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Anemone Virginiana
''Anemone virginiana'' is an upright growing herbaceous species of flowering plant buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is a perennial that grows tall, flowering from May until July, the flowers are white or greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded thimble shaped spikes long and wide. When the fruits, called achenes, are ripe they have gray-white colored, densely woolly styles, that allow them to blow away in the wind. The leaf structure is whorled halfway up the stem and each individual leaf appears to be deeply cut. Native from eastern North America, where it is found growing in dry or open woods. This plant can be found in 38 out of the 50 states in the U.S. and is located anywhere from Maine to Minnesota going west, and found as far south as Georgia and Louisiana. Common names include tall anemone, thimble-weed page 99 and tumble-weed. Note that several other plant species are known as " thimbleweed". Although this plant sometimes is ca ...
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