Ranunculus kamtschaticus |
Ranunculus sulphureus |
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renoncule soufrée, sulphur buttercup |
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Roots | slender, 0.4-1 mm thick. |
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Stems | erect from short caudices or rhizomes, not rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
erect from short caudices, 3-20 cm, sparsely pilose to glabrous, each with 1-3 flowers. |
Basal leaves | persistent, blades transversely elliptic to orbiculate, 1-3 × 1-3 cm, base obtuse to nearly truncate, margins crenate or else blades shallowly 3-lobed with crenate lateral lobes, apex rounded or rounded-apiculate. |
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Basal leaf blades | circular to ovate or obovate, undivided, 0.8-2.6 × 0.6-1.4 cm, margins entire or serrulate, apex obtuse or rounded. |
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Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, 4-8 × 2-4 mm, glabrous; petals yellow, 5-12 × 1-3 mm. |
pedicels sparsely brown-pilose; receptacle brown-pilose; sepals 6-8 × 3-6 mm, abaxially densely brown-hispid; petals 5(-6), 8-12 × 6-10 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | depressed-hemispheric or -conic, 3-4 × 5 mm; achenes 2-2.6 × 1-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, lanceolate, straight, 0.8-1.2 mm. |
ovoid-cylindric or ovoid, 6-7(-9) × 5-6 mm; achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous or sparsely brown-hispid; beak slender, straight or curved, 0.8-1.4 mm. |
Tuberous | roots absent. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 42, ca. 80, ca. 84, 96, ca. 98. |
Ranunculus kamtschaticus |
Ranunculus sulphureus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (May–Aug). | Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Sep). |
Habitat | Tundra on moist slopes | Meadows and seepy slopes, often around late snowbeds, bogs, and streamsides |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 0-1100 m (0-3600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; Asia |
AK; BC; NF; NT; QC; YT; Greenland; Eurasia |
Discussion | Material of Ranunculus sulphureus from the Aleutian Islands has 3-lobed leaves similar to those of R. nivalis. These plants are sometimes separated as R. sulphureus var. intercedens. (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 | Oxygraphis glacialis | R. sulphureus var. intercedens |
Name authority | de Candolle: Syst. Nat. 1: 302. (1817) | Solander: in C. J. Phipps, Voy. North Pole, 202. (1774) |
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