Ranunculus pallasii |
Ranunculus inamoenus |
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Pallas' buttercup, renoncule de Pallas |
graceful buttercup, unlovely buttercup |
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Roots | slender, 0.6-1.2 mm thick. |
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Stems | creeping or floating, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
erect, 5-33 cm, pilose or glabrous, each with 3-7 flowers. |
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Basal leaves | 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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Basal leaf blades | linear to obovate, undivided or 3-lobed, 1.5-3.6 × 0.3-2 cm, lobes lanceolate or elliptic, margins entire, apex rounded to acuminate. |
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Flowers | receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, 6-10 × 4-7 mm, glabrous; petals 7-11, white or pink, 8-13 × 3-6 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 | globose or hemispheric, 5-12 × 9-15 mm; achenes 4.2-5.2 × 2.4-3.2 mm, glabrous; beak persistent, lanceolate, straight or curved, 1-1.2 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 | = 32. |
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Ranunculus pallasii |
Ranunculus inamoenus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jul–Aug). | |||||
Habitat | Shallow water of bogs and pools in muskeg and tundra | |||||
Elevation | 0-700 m (0-2300 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AK; MB; NF; NT; ON; QC; YT; Eurasia |
AZ; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK
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Discussion | 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. Pallasiantha | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes | ||||
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Name authority | Schlechtendal: Animadv. Bot. Ranunc. Cand. 1: 15. (1819) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 91. (1896) | ||||
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