Ranunculus marginatus |
Ranunculus orthorhynchus |
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margined buttercup |
Bloomer's buttercup, straight-beak buttercup, swamp buttercup |
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Roots | sometimes fleshy and ± tuberous. |
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Stems | erect, sparsely pilose. |
nearly erect or decumbent, never rooting nodally, hispid, strigose, or glabrous, base not bulbous. |
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Basal leaf blades | reniform to semicircular, undivided or shallowly 3-lobed, 2.5-5 × 3-7 cm, base truncate to nearly cordate, margins crenate or dentate, apex rounded or obtuse. |
narrowly ovate to oblong or semicircular in outline, simple to 3-5-lobed or -foliolate, 2.8-12.5 × 2.5-14 cm, leaflets or segments undivided or 1-2x-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments circular to linear, margins dentate, crenate, or entire, apex rounded to narrowly acute. |
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Flowers | pedicellate; receptacle hispid; sepals 5, reflexed 1 mm from base, 3-5 × 1-2 mm, hispid; petals 5, 4-5 × 2-3.5 mm. |
receptacle hispid; sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 5-11 × 2-4 mm, hispid, hirsute, or glabrous; petals 5-6, abaxially yellow or red, adaxially yellow, 8-18 × 4-11 mm. |
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Heads of achenes | hemispheric to globose, 4 × 6 mm; achenes 15-20 per head, 2.5-3 × 2-2.5 mm, faces covered with high sharp tubercles or low spines, glabrous, margin smooth; beak deltate, straight, 0.8-1 mm. |
hemispheric to ovoid, 5-13 × 6-10 mm; achenes 2.8-4.5 × 1.8-3.2 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, narrowly lanceolate to subulate, straight, 1.8-3.8(-4.8) mm. |
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Ranunculus marginatus |
Ranunculus orthorhynchus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Mar–May). | |||||||||
Habitat | Roadsides | |||||||||
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; LA; TX; native to Europe [Introduced in North America] |
AK; CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
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Discussion | A form of Ranunculus marginatus, with the fruits weakly tuberculate or almost smooth, similar to the smooth-fruited forms of R. sardous, is found in Europe; it is not known from North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 The first two varieties (Ranunculus orthorhynchus var. orthorhynchus and R. orthorhynchus var. platyphyllus) are rather weak, intergrading extensively in California and Oregon. By contrast, R. orthorhynchus var. bloomeri often grows with the others with little or no intergradation (although intermediate populations are found in some areas), and it has been treated as a distinct species, R. bloomeri, by many taxonomists. (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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Name authority | d'Urville: Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 318. (1822) | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 21. (1829) | ||||||||
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