Ranunculus hispidus |
Ranunculus populago |
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bristly buttercup, hispid crowfoot, renoncule hispide |
Cusick's buttercup, mountain buttercup, popular buttercup |
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Roots | never tuberous. |
thickened basally, glabrous. |
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Stems | erect or decumbent, sometimes rooting nodally, hispid or strigose, base not bulbous. |
erect or ascending, never rooting nodally, glabrous. |
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Leaves | basal leaf blades with base obtuse to cordate; proximal cauline leaf blades semicircular to cordate or ovate, 1.2-5.1 × 1.5-2.9 cm, base cordate to broadly obtuse, margins entire or crenulate, apex broadly acute to rounded. |
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Basal leaf | blades ovate to deltate in outline, 3-foliolate or outer blades merely 3-parted, 2-13.4 × 2.4-16.8 cm, leaflets undivided to lobed or parted, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate to circular, margins toothed, apex acuminate to rounded. |
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Inflorescences | bracts narrowly elliptic to ovate or lanceolate. |
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Flowers | receptacle hispid; sepals spreading or reflexed, 4-10 × 2-5 mm, hispid; petals 5, yellow, 8-16 × 3-9 mm. |
receptacle glabrous or hispidulous; sepals 4-5, spreading or reflexed from base, 3-5 × 2-4 mm, glabrous; petals 5-6, 4-9 × 2-5 mm; nectary scales glabrous. |
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Heads of achenes | hemispheric to short-ovoid, 6-10 × 7-10 mm; achenes 2.2-5.2 × 2-3.8 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib or broad wing 0.1-1.2 mm wide; beak persistent, lance-subulate, straight or somewhat curved, 0.8-2.6 mm. |
hemispheric, 3 × 4-5 mm; achenes 1.6-1.8 × 1.2 mm, glabrous; beak lance-subulate, straight, 0.2-1 mm. |
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Ranunculus hispidus |
Ranunculus populago |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Aug). | |||||||||
Habitat | Wet ground and shallow water, in wet meadows, bogs, streams, lakes | |||||||||
Elevation | 1300-2000 m (4300-6600 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC
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CA; ID; MT; OR; WA
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Discussion | Varieties 3 Until recently, the varieties of Ranunculus hispidus were usually treated as distinct species. Arguments for restoring species status to R. hispidus var. nitidus were given by G. L. Nesom (1993). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Ranunculus | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Flammula | ||||||||
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Name authority | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 321. (1803) | Greene: Erythea 3: 19. (1895) | ||||||||
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