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Gorman's buttercup

Roots

thickened basally, glabrous.

Stems

prostrate, sometimes rooting nodally, glabrous.

Proximal cauline leaf blades

narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-2 cm, base rounded, truncate or sometimes obtuse, margins entire or denticulate, apex obtuse or acute.

Inflorescences

bracts ovate or sometimes lanceolate.

Flowers

receptacle glabrous;

sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from near base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous;

petals 5-6, 4-6 × 2-4 mm;

nectary scales glabrous.

Heads of achenes

hemispheric, 2-3 × 3-4 mm;

achenes 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous;

beak lanceolate to subulate, straight or curved, 0.6-0.8 mm.

Ranunculus gormanii

Phenology Flowering spring–summer (May–Jul).
Habitat Damp soil of meadows and stream banks
Elevation 900-3300 m (3000-10800 ft)
Distribution
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CA; OR
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Discussion

Ranunculus gormanii is restricted to middle elevations in the Klamath and southern Cascade Mountains.

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

Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Flammula
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. flabellaris, R. flammula, R. gelidus, R. glaberrimus, R. glacialis, R. gmelinii, 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
Name authority Greene: Pittonia 3: 91. (1896)
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