Ranunculus austro-oreganus |
Ranunculus pallasii |
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southern Oregon buttercup |
Pallas' buttercup, renoncule de Pallas |
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| Roots | never tuberous. |
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| Stems | erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, crisped-pilose, base not bulbous. |
creeping or floating, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
| Basal leaf blades | broadly rhombic to semicircular in outline, 3-parted, 2.8-4.3 × 3-5.5 cm, segments 3-lobed, ultimate segments lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, apex narrowly acute or acuminate. |
linear to obovate, undivided or 3-lobed, 1.5-3.6 × 0.3-2 cm, lobes lanceolate or elliptic, margins entire, apex rounded to acuminate. |
| Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals reflexed 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, densely pilose; petals 5, abaxially red, adaxially yellow, 10-12 × 4-6 mm. |
receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, 6-10 × 4-7 mm, glabrous; petals 7-11, white or pink, 8-13 × 3-6 mm. |
| Heads | of achenes hemispheric, 4-7 × 7-10 mm; achenes 3.4-4.2 × 2.8-3.2 mm, sometimes basally pilose, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, lance-subulate, straight or somewhat curved distally, 1.6-2.6 mm. |
of achenes globose or hemispheric, 5-12 × 9-15 mm; achenes 4.2-5.2 × 2.4-3.2 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, lanceolate, straight or curved, 1-1.2 mm. |
| Tuberous | roots absent. |
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| 2n | = 32. |
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Ranunculus austro-oreganus |
Ranunculus pallasii |
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| Phenology | Flowering spring (May). | Flowering summer (Jul–Aug). |
| Habitat | Grassy hillsides | Shallow water of bogs and pools in muskeg and tundra |
| Elevation | 500 m [1600 ft] | 0-700 m [0-2300 ft] |
| Distribution |
OR
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AK; MB; NF; NT; ON; QC; YT; Eurasia
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| Discussion | Of conservation concern. Ranunculus austro-oreganus is doubtfully distinct from R. occidentalis var. howellii. L. D. Benson (1954) described the stem as bulbous-based and similar to that of R. bulbosus, but a differentiated base is not evident in material I have seen (some of which was cited by Benson). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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| Name authority | L. D. Benson: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 52: 341. (1954) | Schlechtendal: Animadv. Bot. Ranunc. Cand. 1: 15. (1819) |
| Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
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