Ranunculus macranthus |
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large buttercup, showy buttercup, smallflower buttercup |
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Roots | tuberous. |
Stems | erect or decumbent, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous. |
Basal leaf blades | ovate in outline, 3-5-foliolate, 3.8-10 × 2.7-9 cm, leaflets 1x-lobed, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex broadly acute to rounded-obtuse. |
Flowers | receptacle hispid; sepals spreading or weakly reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 7-10 × 3-5 mm, hispid; petals 10-22, yellow, 12-22 × 4-9 mm. |
Heads of achenes | globose to cylindric, 8-14 × 8-10 mm; achenes 2.2-4.2 × 2.8-3.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.4-0.6 mm wide; beak usually persistent, filiform from deltate base, straight, 2-4 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
Ranunculus macranthus |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–May). |
Habitat | Riverbanks and wet meadows |
Elevation | 0-400 m (0-1300 ft) |
Distribution |
TX
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Source | FNA vol. 3. |
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Synonyms | R. fascicularis var. cuneiformis |
Name authority | Scheele: Linnaea 21: 585. (1848) |
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