Ranunculus allenii |
Ranunculus pacificus |
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Allen's buttercup, renoncule d'Allen |
Pacific buttercup |
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Roots | slender, 0.2-0.8 mm thick. |
never tuberous. |
Stems | erect or ascending, 5-19 cm, sparsely pilose, each with 1-4 flowers. |
erect or reclining, never rooting nodally, hispid or glabrous, base not bulbous. |
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. |
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Basal leaf blades | broadly triangular to cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 6-13 × 8-16 cm, leaflets lobed, margins toothed, ultimate segments elliptic to lance-elliptic or oblong, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse. |
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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. |
receptacle hispid; sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 6-9 × 3-4 mm, sparsely hispid; petals 5, abaxially yellow or purplish, adaxially yellow, 9-11 × 6-8 mm. |
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. |
ovoid to globose, 9-11 × 8-11 mm; achenes 3.2-3.8 × 2-3 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, lanceolate or subulate from triangular base, straight or tip weakly hooked, 1-1.8 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
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Ranunculus allenii |
Ranunculus pacificus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jul–Aug). | Flowering summer (Jul). |
Habitat | Wet alpine meadows, often around late snowbeds, shores of lakes and streams | Along streams and in meadows |
Elevation | 700-1300 m (2300-4300 ft) | 0 m (0 ft) |
Distribution |
NF; NT; QC |
AK |
Discussion | Ranunculus pacificus is endemic to the Alaska panhandle. (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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Synonyms | R. septentrionalis subsp. pacificus | |
Name authority | B. L. Robinson: Rhodora 7: 220. (1905) | (Hultén) L. D. Benson: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 40: 79. (1948) |
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