Patens: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

	basal leaves expanding after flowering; NOT [basal leaves fully expanded  at flowering]
	bracts sessile; NOT [bracts short-petioled]
	flowers bluish or purplish; NOT [flowers white, sometimes purple-tinged]
	sepals 15-40 mm long; NOT [sepals 5-25 mm long]
	styles plumose
	styles 1.5-3.5 cm long; NOT [styles much shorter]

Pulsatilla: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 

	plants not woody climbers
	leaves not all basal, stem leaves present; NOT [leaves all basal]
	cauline leaves whorled, forming a single involucre of leafy bracts some  distance below inflorescence; NOT [cauline leaves alternate]; NOT [cauline leaves opposite]
	leaf segments mostly toothed, acute; NOT [leaves 3-lobed, with the lobes entire, rounded]
	flowers perfect; NOT [flowers mostly imperfect, the plants dioecious]
	flowers regular; NOT [flowers irregular]
	flowers not spurred
	petals absent, but sepals colored and petal-like, though seldom yellow; NOT [petals usually present]
	sepals conspicuous
	sepals not greenish
	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 members of Ranunculaceae, but they all do apply to genus Anemone.

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	land plants; NOT [water plants]
	plants rooted in soil; NOT [plants parasitic on branches of trees]
	plants 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 not orbicular or reniform
	leaves compound or simple, but very deeply divided; NOT [leaves not compound and not very deeply divided]
	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]