Canadensis: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora (BF)  and Flora of Alberta (FOA) leading to this genus. 

	plants NOT with slender rhizomes (FOA)
	involucral leaves sessile or subsessile; NOT [involucral leaves petiolate]
	leaves much wider than 3 cm; NOT [leaves mostly 1-3 cm wide]
	leaves much divided; NOT [leaves trifoliolate]
	leaf segments generally more than 5 mm wide; NOT [leaf-segments generally less than 5 mm wide]
	leaf-segments wedge-shaped to lanceolate-ovate; NOT [leaf-segments linear to lanceolate-ovate]
	sepals white; NOT [sepals yellow], NOT [sepals often blue or reddish on the outer side]
	sepals generally less than 2 cm long; NOT [sepals 2-4 cm long] (FOA)
	sepals 5-25 mm long; NOT [sepals 15-40 m long] (BF)
	carpels glabrous or somewhat pubescent; NOT [carpels densely woolly]
	styles much shorter than 1.5-3.5 cm long
	styles straight; NOT [styles hooked] (BF)
	styles NOT reflexed
	styles NOT plumose
	achenes sessile; NOT [achenes stipitate]
	achenes flattened; NOT [achenes fusiform]
	achenes pubescent; NOT [achenes glabrous], NOT [achenes densely woolly]

Anemone: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora (BF)  and Flora of Alberta (FOA) leading to this genus. 

	plants NOT woody climbers
	leaves NOT all basal, stem leaves present (BF)
	leaves either basal or alternate; NOT [plants with opposite leaves] (BF)
	leaves all basal except involucre of leafy bracts some distance below the inflorescence; NOT [leaves not basal, without involucral bracts below inflorescence] (BF)
	cauline leaves whorled, forming an involucre; NOT [cauline leaves alternate] (FOA)
	leaf segments mostly toothed; NOT [leaf lobes entire]
	leaf segments acute; NOT [leaf lobes rounded]
	flowers perfect; NOT [plants dioecious]
	flowers regular, not spurred; NOT [flowers irregular or spurred]
	sepals conspicuous, colored and petal-like; NOT [sepals inconspicuous]
	sepals NOT greenish, sepals SELDOM yellow
	petals absent
	carpels 2 or more; NOT [carpel 1]
	ovaries 1-ovuled; NOT [ovaries several-ovuled]
	fruit an achene; NOT [fruit a follicle], NOT [fruit a berry]

Ranunculaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family.  Not all the answers apply to all genera with Ranunculaceae, but they all do apply to Anemone.

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	land plants; NOT [water plants]
	plants not parasitic on trees, rooted in soil or water; NOT [plants parasitic on branches of trees]
	plants with stems or stemless, but with more than one pair of leaves; NOT [plants stemless with a single pair of large reniform leaves]
	leaves alternate, lower ones sometimes opposite; NOT [leaves opposite]
	leaves without stipules; NOT [leaves with stipules free or sheathing the stem]
	leaves compound or simple, but very deeply divided; NOT [leaves not compound and not very deeply divided], NOT [ leaves orbicular], NOT [leaves reniform]
	flowers with only one floral ring, with sepals but not petals]
	stamens and pistils in each flower; NOT [stamens or pistils in separate flowers on the same plant]
	fruit dry when ripe; NOT [fruit fleshy when ripe]