Ranunculus allenii |
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Allen's buttercup, renoncule d'Allen |
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Roots | slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers. |
Basal leaves | persistent, blades reniform or semicircular, undivided or some 3-parted, 1.4-2.1 × 1.7-2.8 cm, base cordate or truncate, margins crenate with more than 5 crenae, apex rounded. |
Flowers | pedicels pilose, sometimes sparsely so; receptacle hispid; sepals 4-6 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5, 4-5 × 2-4 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | ovoid to cylindric, 4-7 × 4-6 mm; achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak lance-subulate, curved, 0.4-0.6 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
Ranunculus allenii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jul–Aug). |
Habitat | Wet alpine meadows, often around late snowbeds, shores of lakes and streams |
Elevation | 700-1300 m (2300-4300 ft) |
Distribution |
NF; NT; QC |
Source | FNA vol. 3. |
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Name authority | B. L. Robinson: Rhodora 7: 220. (1905) |
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