Ranunculus cymbalaria |
Ranunculus andersonii |
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alkali buttercup, renoncule cymbalaire, seaside buttercup, seaside crowfoot, shore buttercup |
Anderson's buttercup, pink buttercup |
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Stems | dimorphic, flowering stems erect or ascending, stolons prostrate, rooting nodally, glabrous or sparsely hirsute, not bulbous-based. |
erect from short caudices, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
Basal leaves | simple and undivided, blades oblong to cordate or circular, 0.7-3.8 × 0.8-3.2 cm, base rounded to cordate, margins crenate or crenate-serrate, apex rounded. |
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Basal leaf blades | cordate in outline, ternately 1-2x-compound, 1.5-3.8 × 2.1-3.8 cm, leaflets 2-3x-parted, ultimate segments elliptic to linear, margins entire or with occasional teeth, apex obtuse to acuminate. |
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Flowers | receptacle hispid or glabrous; sepals spreading, 2.5-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous; petals 5, yellow, 2-7 × 1-3 mm. |
receptacle hispid; sepals spreading, 9-15 × 5-9 mm, glabrous; petals pinkish white, 12-18 × 9-13 mm. |
Heads of achenes | long-ovoid or cylindric, 6-12 × 4-5(-9) mm; achenes 1-1.4(-2.2) × 0.8-1.2 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, conic, straight, 0.1-0.2 mm. |
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Tuberous | roots absent. |
roots absent. |
Fruiting | heads globose or depressed-globose, 13-27 × 21-29 mm; fruit wall veined, inflated, not winged, fruits thus utricles; utricles 6-12 × 4-6 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, deltate or subulate from deltate base, 0.2-0.6 mm. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Ranunculus cymbalaria |
Ranunculus andersonii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (May–Sep). | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Slopes in sagebrush or pinyon-juniper woodland | |
Elevation | 900-2300 m (3000-7500 ft) | |
Distribution |
Bogs; marshes; ditches; stream banks; often saline
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AZ; CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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Discussion | Various Navaho groups used Ranunculus cymbalaria as a venereal aid, an emetic, and a ceremonial medicine. The Kawaiisu used it as a dermatological aid (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. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Cyrtorhyncha > sect. Halodes | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Crymodes |
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Synonyms | Halerpestes cymbalaria, R. cymbalaria var. alpinus, R. cymbalaria var. saximontanus | Beckwithia andersonii, R. andersonii var. juniperinus, R. andersonii var. tenellus, R. juniperinus |
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 392. (1814) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 327. (1867) |
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