Ranunculus pacificus |
Ranunculus pensylvanicus |
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Pacific buttercup |
bristly buttercup, bristly crowfoot, Pennsylvania buttercup, renoncule de pennsylvanie |
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Roots | never tuberous. |
never tuberous. |
Stems | erect or reclining, never rooting nodally, hispid or glabrous, base not bulbous. |
erect, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous. |
Basal leaf blades | broadly triangular to cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 6-13 × 8-16 cm, leaflets lobed, margins toothed, ultimate segments elliptic to lance-elliptic or oblong, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse. |
broadly cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 1.6-7 × 3-9 cm, leaflets cleft, usually deeply so, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, apex acute. |
Flowers | receptacle hispid; sepals reflexed 1-2 mm above base, 6-9 × 3-4 mm, sparsely hispid; petals 5, abaxially yellow or purplish, adaxially yellow, 9-11 × 6-8 mm. |
receptacle hirsute; sepals reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 3-5 × 1.5-2 mm, ± hispid; petals 5, yellow, 2-4 × 1-2.5 mm. |
Heads of achenes | ovoid to globose, 9-11 × 8-11 mm; achenes 3.2-3.8 × 2-3 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, lanceolate or subulate from triangular base, straight or tip weakly hooked, 1-1.8 mm. |
cylindric, 9-12 × 5-7 mm; achenes 1.8-2.8 × 1.6-2 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, broadly lanceolate or nearly deltate, straight or nearly so, 0.6-0.8 mm. |
2n | = 16. |
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Ranunculus pacificus |
Ranunculus pensylvanicus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jul). | Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Along streams and in meadows | Stream banks, bogs, moist clearings, depressions in woodlands |
Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK |
AK; AZ; CO; CT; DC; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; PA; RI; SD; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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Discussion | Ranunculus pacificus is endemic to the Alaska panhandle. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ojibwa tribes used Ranunculus pensylvanicus as a hunting medicine; the Potawatomi used it as an astringent for miscellaneous diseases (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
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Synonyms | R. septentrionalis subsp. pacificus | |
Name authority | (Hultén) L. D. Benson: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 40: 79. (1948) | Linnaeus f.: Suppl. Pl., 272. (1782) |
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