Ranunculus lobbii |
Ranunculus pusillus |
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Lobb's aquatic buttercup, Lobb's buttercup, Lobb's water-buttercup |
low buttercup, low spearwort, weak buttercup |
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Roots | not thickened basally, glabrous. |
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Stems | glabrous. |
erect or ascending, rooting at most proximal nodes, glabrous. |
Leaves | laminate and filiform-dissected; laminate leaf blades reniform in outline, deeply 3-parted, 0.5-0.8 × 0.9-1.5 cm, segments elliptic or obovate, margins sometimes notched; filiform-dissected leaves sometimes few and inconspicuous, stipules gradually tapering upward, connate for whole length, mostly petiolate. |
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Proximal cauline leaf blades | ovate or lanceolate, 1.2-4.2 × 0.5-1.2 cm, base acute to truncate, margins entire or denticulate, apex acuminate to rounded. |
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Inflorescences | bracts linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate. |
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Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, 2-3 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous; petals 5, 4-6 × 2-5 mm; style 1-1.5 mm. |
receptacle glabrous; sepals 4-5, spreading or reflexed from base, 1.5-3 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute; petals 1-3, 1.5-2 × 0.5-1 mm; nectary scales glabrous. |
Fruiting pedicels | recurved. |
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Heads of achenes | hemispheric, 3 × 4-5 mm; achenes 2-2.4 × 1.4-1.8 mm, glabrous; beak deciduous, sometimes leaving stub to 0.2 mm. |
hemispheric to cylindric, 2-8 × 2-3 mm; achenes 1-1.2 × 0.6-0.8 mm, ± tuberculate, glabrous; beak absent or nearly so, to 0.1 mm. |
Ranunculus lobbii |
Ranunculus pusillus |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May). | Flowering spring (Apr–Jun). |
Habitat | Shallow ponds and vernal pools | Ditches, ponds, and swamps |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; BC
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AL; AR; CA; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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Discussion | In most specimens of Ranunculus pusillus, the heads of achenes are hemispheric to short-ovate and only 2-3 mm. Occasional plants with cylindric heads of achenes 4-6 mm from the Gulf Coast states have been called R. pusillus var. angustifolius. (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 | R. hydrocharis | R. oblongifolius, R. pusillus var. angustifolius, R. tener |
Name authority | (Hiern) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 21: 364. (1886) | Poiret: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 6: 99. (1804) |
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