Ranunculus alismifolius |
Ranunculus inamoenus |
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common water plantain buttercup, kidney-leaf buttercup, plantain-leaf buttercup, water-plantain buttercup |
graceful buttercup, unlovely buttercup |
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Roots | slender or fusiform-thickened basally, glabrous. |
slender, 0.6-1.2 mm thick. |
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Stems | erect or ascending, not rooting nodally, glabrous or hirsute. |
erect, 5-33 cm, pilose or glabrous, each with 3-7 flowers. |
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Leaves | basal leaf blades with base acute; proximal cauline leaf blades lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, 1.8-14.1 × 0.7-2.9 cm, base acuminate to rounded, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse to acuminate. |
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Basal leaves | persistent, blades ovate, obovate or orbiculate, rarely reniform, undivided or innermost with 2 clefts or partings near apex, 1-3.7 × 1.1-3.5 cm, base acute to rounded, margins entire, apex rounded. |
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Inflorescences | bracts lanceolate. |
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Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from base, 2-6 × 1-4 mm, glabrous or hirsute; petals 5-12, 5-14 × 2-8 mm; nectary scales glabrous. |
pedicels appressed-pubescent; receptacle pilose or glabrous; sepals 3-5 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5, 4-9 × 2-5 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
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Heads of achenes | hemispheric to globose, 3-7 × 4-8 mm; achenes 1.6-2.8 × 1.2-2 mm, glabrous or rarely hispid; beak lance-subulate, straight or weakly curved, 0.4-1.2 mm. |
cylindric, 7-17 × 5-8 mm; achenes 1.5-2 × 1.3-1.8 mm, canescent or glabrous; beak subulate, straight or hooked, 0.4-2 mm. |
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Ranunculus alismifolius |
Ranunculus inamoenus |
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Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
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AZ; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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Discussion | Varieties 6 (6 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The Navaho-Ramah considered Ranunculus inamoenus to be an effective hunting medicine, used to protect hunters from their prey (D. E. Moerman 1986). Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Flammula | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Geyer ex Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 295. (1849) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 91. (1896) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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