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greater yellow water crowfoot, renoncule à évantails, water buttercup, yellow water-buttercup, yellow water-crowfoot

Hartweg's buttercup, Sacramento Valley buttercup

Roots

never tuberous.

Stems

floating or prostrate, glabrous, rooting at proximal nodes.

erect to decumbent, never rooting nodally, hirsute, pilose, or glabrous, base not bulbous.

Leaves

basal leaves seldom present, cauline leaf blades semicircular to reniform, 1-6x-lobed, parted, or dissected 1.2-7.3 × 1.9-10.8 cm, base truncate or cordate, segment margins entire or crenate, apex rounded to filiform.

Basal leaf blades

ovate to narrowly ovate in outline, 3-parted or -foliolate, 3.3-9.5 ×3.5-9.4 cm, leaflets or segments 1-3x-lobed, ultimate segments ovate or oblong-ovate to lanceolate, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse.

Flowers

receptacle sparsely hispid;

sepals 5, spreading or weakly reflexed, 5-7 × 3-6 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6(-14), 7-12 × 5-9 mm;

nectary scale variable, crescent-shaped, funnel-shaped, or flaplike;

style 0.8-1.2 mm.

receptacle glabrous;

sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 3-8 × 2-4 mm, hirsute;

petals 5-17, yellow, 6-12 × 3-6 mm.

Heads of achenes

ovoid, 8-10 × 7-8 mm;

achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.6-2.2 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate, straight, 1-1.8 mm.

hemispheric to globose, 6-9 × 7-10 mm;

achenes 3.4-4.4 × 2.4-3.6 mm, glabrous or rarely hispid, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide;

beak persistent, deltate or lance-deltate, curved, 0.2-1.2 mm.

2n

= 32.

Ranunculus flabellaris

Ranunculus canus

Phenology Flowering late spring–summer (May–Aug).
Habitat Shallow water or drying mud
Elevation 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft)
Distribution
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AL; AR; CA; CT; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; ON; QC
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Discussion

The Fox tribes used Ranunculus flabellaris as a cold remedy and a respiratory aid (D. E. Moerman 1986).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Ranunculus canus intergrades with R. occidentalis var. occidentalis and R. californicus, and some populations can be difficult to assign to species. The deltate or lance-deltate achene beak of R. canus, however, which is usually 0.8-1.2 mm wide at the base and less than 1.5 times as long as wide, contrasts with the narrower beaks of the other two species, which are usually less than 0.6 mm wide and at least twice as long as wide.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Petals 5–7; Sacramento Valley and adjacent foothills.
var. canus
1. Petals 13–17; Transverse Ranges.
var. ludovicianus
Source FNA vol. 3. FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Hecatonia Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Ranunculus
Sibling taxa
R. abortivus, R. acriformis, R. acris, R. adoneus, R. alismifolius, R. allegheniensis, R. allenii, R. ambigens, R. andersonii, R. aquatilis, R. arizonicus, R. arvensis, R. auricomus, R. austro-oreganus, R. bonariensis, R. bulbosus, R. californicus, R. canus, R. cardiophyllus, R. cooleyae, R. cymbalaria, R. eschscholtzii, R. fascicularis, R. fasciculatus, R. ficaria, R. flammula, R. gelidus, R. glaberrimus, R. glacialis, R. gmelinii, R. gormanii, R. harveyi, R. hebecarpus, R. hederaceus, R. hispidus, R. hydrocharoides, R. hyperboreus, R. hystriculus, R. inamoenus, R. jovis, R. kamtschaticus, R. lapponicus, R. laxicaulis, R. lobbii, R. macauleyi, R. macounii, R. macranthus, R. marginatus, R. micranthus, R. muricatus, R. nivalis, R. occidentalis, R. oresterus, R. orthorhynchus, R. pacificus, R. pallasii, R. parviflorus, R. pedatifidus, R. pensylvanicus, R. platensis, R. populago, R. pusillus, R. pygmaeus, R. ranunculinus, R. recurvatus, R. repens, R. rhomboideus, R. sabinei, R. sardous, R. sceleratus, R. sulphureus, R. testiculatus, R. trilobus, R. triternatus, R. turneri, R. uncinatus
R. abortivus, R. acriformis, R. acris, R. adoneus, R. alismifolius, R. allegheniensis, R. allenii, R. ambigens, R. andersonii, R. aquatilis, R. arizonicus, R. arvensis, R. auricomus, R. austro-oreganus, R. bonariensis, R. bulbosus, R. californicus, R. cardiophyllus, R. cooleyae, R. cymbalaria, R. eschscholtzii, R. fascicularis, R. fasciculatus, R. ficaria, R. flabellaris, R. flammula, R. gelidus, R. glaberrimus, R. glacialis, R. gmelinii, R. gormanii, R. harveyi, R. hebecarpus, R. hederaceus, R. hispidus, R. hydrocharoides, R. hyperboreus, R. hystriculus, R. inamoenus, R. jovis, R. kamtschaticus, R. lapponicus, R. laxicaulis, R. lobbii, R. macauleyi, R. macounii, R. macranthus, R. marginatus, R. micranthus, R. muricatus, R. nivalis, R. occidentalis, R. oresterus, R. orthorhynchus, R. pacificus, R. pallasii, R. parviflorus, R. pedatifidus, R. pensylvanicus, R. platensis, R. populago, R. pusillus, R. pygmaeus, R. ranunculinus, R. recurvatus, R. repens, R. rhomboideus, R. sabinei, R. sardous, R. sceleratus, R. sulphureus, R. testiculatus, R. trilobus, R. triternatus, R. turneri, R. uncinatus
Subordinate taxa
R. canus var. canus, R. canus var. ludovicianus
Synonyms R. delphinifolius
Name authority Rafinesque: Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 344. (1818) Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 294. (1849)
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