Ranunculus flabellaris |
Ranunculus macranthus |
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greater yellow water crowfoot, renoncule à évantails, water buttercup, yellow water-buttercup, yellow water-crowfoot |
large buttercup, showy buttercup, smallflower buttercup |
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Roots | tuberous. |
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Stems | floating or prostrate, glabrous, rooting at proximal nodes. |
erect or decumbent, never rooting nodally, hispid, 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. |
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Basal leaf blades | ovate in outline, 3-5-foliolate, 3.8-10 × 2.7-9 cm, leaflets 1x-lobed, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex broadly acute to rounded-obtuse. |
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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 hispid; sepals spreading or weakly reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 7-10 × 3-5 mm, hispid; petals 10-22, yellow, 12-22 × 4-9 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. |
globose to cylindric, 8-14 × 8-10 mm; achenes 2.2-4.2 × 2.8-3.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.4-0.6 mm wide; beak usually persistent, filiform from deltate base, straight, 2-4 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
= 32. |
Ranunculus flabellaris |
Ranunculus macranthus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (May–Aug). | Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Shallow water or drying mud | Riverbanks and wet meadows |
Elevation | 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft) | 0-400 m (0-1300 ft) |
Distribution |
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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TX
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
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Synonyms | R. delphinifolius | R. fascicularis var. cuneiformis |
Name authority | Rafinesque: Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 344. (1818) | Scheele: Linnaea 21: 585. (1848) |
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