Ranunculus allenii |
Ranunculus glaberrimus |
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Allen's buttercup, renoncule d'Allen |
sagebrush buttercup, smooth buttercup |
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Roots | slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick. |
cylindric, 1-3 mm thick. |
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Stems | erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers. |
prostrate or ascending, 4-15 cm, glabrous, each with 1-4 flowers. |
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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. |
persistent, blades reniform or obovate to very narrowly elliptic, 0.7-5.2 × 1-2 cm, base truncate, obtuse or attenuate, margins entire or with 3 broad, apical crenae, apex rounded to acute. |
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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. |
pedicels glabrous or nearly so; receptacle glabrous; sepals 5-8 × 3-7 mm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5-10, 8-13 × 5-12 mm; nectary scale glabrous or ciliate. |
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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. |
globose, 7-12(-20) × 6-11(-20) mm; achenes 1.4-2.2 × 1.1-1.8 mm, usually finely pubescent; beak subulate or lance-subulate, straight or curved, 0.4-1 mm. |
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2n | = 32. |
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Ranunculus allenii |
Ranunculus glaberrimus |
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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 |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Usually only a minority of the ovaries develop, and the fruiting receptacle is completely hidden by aborted ovaries. Populations growing at high elevations (Ranunculus glaberrimus var. ellipticus) and low elevations (var. glaberrimus) are usually well differentiated, but these varieties intergrade at intermediate elevations. The Thompson Indians rubbed the flowers or the whole plant of Ranunculus glaberrimus on arrow points as a poison (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
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Name authority | B. L. Robinson: Rhodora 7: 220. (1905) | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 12. (1829) | ||||
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