Ranunculus cooleyae |
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Cooley's buttercup |
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Stems | erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
Basal leaf | blades circular to reniform in outline, 3-5-parted, 0.8-3.8 × 1.7-6.9 cm, segments again lobed, ultimate segments elliptic or oblong, margins crenate, apex rounded; cauline leaf 0-1, scalelike. |
Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, yellow, 7-11 × 4-7 mm, glabrous; petals 11-15, yellow, 8-12 × 3-5 mm. |
Heads of achenes | hemispheric or spheric, 7-8 × 9-10 mm; achenes 2.4-4.6 × 1.2-2.2 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, filiform, hooked distally, 1-1.8 mm. |
Tuberous | roots absent. |
2n | = 16. |
Ranunculus cooleyae |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Slopes near persistent snowbanks |
Elevation | 500-1800 m (1600-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; WA; BC
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Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Cyrtorhyncha > sect. Arcteranthis |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Arcteranthis cooleyae, Kumlienia cooleyae |
Name authority | Vasey & Rose ex Rose: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 289. (1894) |
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