Common Name:
Bush Anemone
A single species, Carpenteria californica
Carpenteria: "named in honour of Professor William M. Carpenter (1811-48), a physician from Louisiana, by its discoverer, Major General John Charles Fremont, who collected it on one of his four perilous journeys of exploration in the extreme west of the United States between 1842 and 1848".
Pronunciation:
kar-pen-TER-ree-uh
Family:
Saxifragaceae