Ranunculus lapponicus |
Ranunculus inamoenus |
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Lapland buttercup, renoncule de lapponie |
graceful buttercup, unlovely buttercup |
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Roots | slender, 0.6-1.2 mm thick. |
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Stems | prostrate, buried, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
erect, 5-33 cm, pilose or glabrous, each with 3-7 flowers. |
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Basal leaves | blades reniform, deeply 3-parted, 1.1-2.6 × 1.6-4.3 cm, segments undivided or 1x cleft, margins crenate, apex rounded. |
persistent, blades ovate, obovate or orbiculate, rarely reniform, undivided or innermost with 2 clefts or partings near apex, 1-3.7 × 1.1-3.5 cm, base acute to rounded, margins entire, apex rounded. |
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Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading or reflexed from base, 4-7 × 2-5 mm, glabrous; petals yellow, 5-6 × 2-3 mm. |
pedicels appressed-pubescent; receptacle pilose or glabrous; sepals 3-5 × 2-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5, 4-9 × 2-5 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
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Heads of achenes | hemispheric, 5-7 × 8-10 mm; achenes 3.8-4.2 × 2-2.2 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, lanceolate, curved, tip hooked, 1.6-2.4 mm. |
cylindric, 7-17 × 5-8 mm; achenes 1.5-2 × 1.3-1.8 mm, canescent or glabrous; beak subulate, straight or hooked, 0.4-2 mm. |
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Tuberous | roots absent. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Ranunculus lapponicus |
Ranunculus inamoenus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Jul). | |||||
Habitat | Boggy places and lakesides in tundra, muskeg, and boreal forest | |||||
Elevation | 0-900 m (0-3000 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AK; ME; MI; MN; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NT; ON; QC; SK; YT; Greenland; Eurasia
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AZ; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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Discussion | Starving individuals among western Eskimo groups ate the soaked plant of Ranunculus lapponicus as a dietary aid before consuming other food (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The Navaho-Ramah considered Ranunculus inamoenus to be an effective hunting medicine, used to protect hunters from their prey (D. E. Moerman 1986). Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (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. Coptidium | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes | ||||
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 553. (1753) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 91. (1896) | ||||
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