Ranunculus pallasii |
Ranunculus sceleratus |
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Pallas' buttercup, renoncule de Pallas |
blister buttercup, celery-leaf buttercup, celery-leaf crowfoot, cursed buttercup, cursed crowfoot, cursed crowsfoot, renoncule scélérate |
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Stems | creeping or floating, rooting nodally, glabrous, not bulbous-based. |
erect, glabrous, rooting at base, only very rarely rooting at proximal nodes. |
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Leaves | basal and cauline, basal and proximal cauline leaf blades reniform to semicircular in outline, 3-lobed or -parted, 1-5 × 1.6-6.8 cm, base truncate to cordate, segments usually again lobed or parted, sometimes undivided, margins crenate or crenate-lobulate, apex rounded or occasionally obtuse. |
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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. |
receptacle pubescent or glabrous; sepals 3-5, reflexed from or near base, 2-5 × 1-3 mm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute; petals 3-5, 2-5 × 1-3 mm; nectary on petal surface, scale poorly developed and forming crescent-shaped or circular ridge surrounding but not covering nectary; style absent. |
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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. |
ellipsoid or cylindric heads, 5-13 × 3-7 mm; achenes 1-1.2 × 0.8-1 mm, glabrous; beak deltate, usually straight, 0.1 mm. |
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Tuberous | roots absent. |
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2n | = 32. |
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Ranunculus pallasii |
Ranunculus sceleratus |
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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 |
AK; AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; QC; SK; YT; Eurasia
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Ranunculus sceleratus varieties were used by the Thompson Indians as a poison for their arrow points (D. E. Moerman 1986). (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. Hecatonia | ||||
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Synonyms | Hecatonia scelerata | |||||
Name authority | Schlechtendal: Animadv. Bot. Ranunc. Cand. 1: 15. (1819) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 551. (1753) | ||||
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