Ranunculus cooleyae
Ranunculus gmelinii
Gmelin's buttercup, small yellow water buttercup
: Leaves all basal, the petioles up to 15 cm. long, the blades reniform, 1.5-4 cm. broad, deeply 3- to 5-lobed, the main segments overlapping, usually 2-3 lobed half their length and deeply round-toothed.
Scapes 1-flowered, naked or with a bract mid-length, 10-35 cm. tall;
sepals 5, broadly ovate, 7-10 mm. long, glabrous;
petals 7-12, yellow, slender, long-clawed, barely exceeding the sepals;
nectary scale V-shaped, attached the entire length of the margins;
stamens 75-125;
pistils 70-100.
Achenes glabrous, 2.5 mm. long, elliptic in outline, stylar beak slightly hooked.
Ranunculus cooleyae
Ranunculus gmelinii
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to Washington.
Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska south to Nevada, east to the Rocky Mountains, and across Canada to the Atlantic Coast.
- Local floras:
BC, 
OR, 
WA - Local Web sites:
Flora NW, 
PNW Herbaria 
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USDA Plants Database- LBJ Wildflower Center
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