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renoncule soufrée, sulphur buttercup

Roots

slender, 0.4-1 mm thick.

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.

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.

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.

2n

= 16.

= 42, ca. 80, ca. 84, 96, ca. 98.

Ranunculus kamtschaticus

Ranunculus sulphureus

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
from FNA
AK; Asia
from FNA
AK; BC; NF; NT; QC; YT; Greenland; Eurasia
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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.)

Source FNA vol. 3. FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Oxygraphis Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes
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. gormanii, R. harveyi, R. hebecarpus, R. hederaceus, R. hispidus, R. hydrocharoides, R. hyperboreus, R. hystriculus, R. inamoenus, R. jovis, 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. 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. 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. testiculatus, R. trilobus, R. triternatus, R. turneri, R. uncinatus
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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