Allen's buttercup, renoncule d'Allen
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Eschscholtz's buttercup, snow buttercup, subalpine buttercup
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slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick. |
slender, 0.4-1.6 mm thick. |
erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers. |
erect or decumbent from short or long caudices, 4-27 cm, glabrous, each with 1-3 flowers. |
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. |
persistent, blades reniform or cordate to obovate or broadly oblong, lobed or 3-parted, 0.5-4.1 × 0.8-3.7 cm, segments again 1(-2)×-lobed, base obtuse to cordate, apices of segments rounded in outline. |
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. |
pedicels glabrous; receptacle glabrous or sparsely pilose; sepals 4-8 × 2-6 mm, abaxially glabrous or pilose; petals 5-8, 6-16 × 4-16 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
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. |
cylindric or ovoid, 5-10 × 4-7 mm; achenes 1.4-2 × 1-1.6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; beak lanceolate or subulate, straight (sometimes curved when immature), 0.6-1.8 mm. |
= 32. |
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Flowering summer (Jul–Aug). |
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Wet alpine meadows, often around late snowbeds, shores of lakes and streams |
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700-1300 m (2300-4300 ft) |
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NF; NT; QC |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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Varieties 6 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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1. Ultimate segments and sinuses of basal leaves acute or acuminate. | → 2 |
1. Ultimate segments and sinuses of basal leaves rounded or obtuse (sometimes broadly rounded-acute). | → 3 |
2. Leaf blade reniform, base truncate or cordate. | var. suksdorfii |
2. Leaf blade obovate to broadly oblong, base obtuse or rounded. | var. eximius |
3. Middle segments of many basal leaves lobed and toothed or 2×-lobed. | var. trisectus |
3. Middle segments of basal leaves unlobed or 1×-lobed. | → 4 |
4. Caudices with few or no persistent leaf bases; basal leaves always 3-parted; widespread in w North America. | var. eschscholtzii |
4. Caudices densely clothed with persistent leaf bases; basal leaves sometimes parted but usually merely lobed; California and w Nevada. | var. oxynotus |
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FNA vol. 3. |
FNA vol. 3. |
Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes |
Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes |
R. abortivus, R. acriformis, R. acris, R. adoneus, R. alismifolius, R. allegheniensis, R. ambigens, R. andersonii, R. aquatilis, R. arizonicus, R. arvensis, R. auricomus, R. austro-oreganus, R. bonariensis, R. bulbosus, R. californicus, R. canus, R. cardiophyllus, R. cooleyae, R. cymbalaria, R. eschscholtzii, R. fascicularis, R. fasciculatus, R. ficaria, R. flabellaris, R. flammula, R. gelidus, R. glaberrimus, R. glacialis, R. gmelinii, R. gormanii, R. harveyi, R. hebecarpus, R. hederaceus, R. hispidus, R. hydrocharoides, R. hyperboreus, R. hystriculus, R. inamoenus, R. jovis, R. kamtschaticus, R. lapponicus, R. laxicaulis, R. lobbii, R. macauleyi, R. macounii, R. macranthus, R. marginatus, R. micranthus, R. muricatus, R. nivalis, R. occidentalis, R. oresterus, R. orthorhynchus, R. pacificus, R. pallasii, R. parviflorus, R. pedatifidus, R. pensylvanicus, R. platensis, R. populago, R. pusillus, R. pygmaeus, R. ranunculinus, R. recurvatus, R. repens, R. rhomboideus, R. sabinei, R. sardous, R. sceleratus, R. sulphureus, R. testiculatus, R. trilobus, R. triternatus, R. turneri, R. uncinatus |
R. abortivus, R. acriformis, R. acris, R. adoneus, R. alismifolius, R. allegheniensis, R. allenii, R. ambigens, R. andersonii, R. aquatilis, R. arizonicus, R. arvensis, R. auricomus, R. austro-oreganus, R. bonariensis, R. bulbosus, R. californicus, R. canus, R. cardiophyllus, R. cooleyae, R. cymbalaria, R. fascicularis, R. fasciculatus, R. ficaria, R. flabellaris, R. flammula, R. gelidus, R. glaberrimus, R. glacialis, R. gmelinii, R. gormanii, R. harveyi, R. hebecarpus, R. hederaceus, R. hispidus, R. hydrocharoides, R. hyperboreus, R. hystriculus, R. inamoenus, R. jovis, R. kamtschaticus, R. lapponicus, R. laxicaulis, R. lobbii, R. macauleyi, R. macounii, R. macranthus, R. marginatus, R. micranthus, R. muricatus, R. nivalis, R. occidentalis, R. oresterus, R. orthorhynchus, R. pacificus, R. pallasii, R. parviflorus, R. pedatifidus, R. pensylvanicus, R. platensis, R. populago, R. pusillus, R. pygmaeus, R. ranunculinus, R. recurvatus, R. repens, R. rhomboideus, R. sabinei, R. sardous, R. sceleratus, R. sulphureus, R. testiculatus, R. trilobus, R. triternatus, R. turneri, R. uncinatus |
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B. L. Robinson: Rhodora 7: 220. (1905) |
Schlechtendal: Animadv. Bot. Ranunc. Cand. 2: 16. (1820) |
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