Ranunculus parviflorus |
Ranunculus macounii |
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few flower buttercup, small-flower buttercup, sticktight buttercup |
Macoun's buttercup, renoncule de Macoun |
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Roots | never tuberous. |
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Stems | erect or nearly erect, hispid. |
prostrate to nearly erect, often rooting nodally, hirsute or glabrous, base not bulbous. |
Basal leaf | blades cordate to reniform in outline, 3-foliolate, 3.7-7.5 × 4.5-9.5 cm, leaflets 3-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments elliptic or lance-elliptic, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to broadly acute. |
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Flowers | pedicellate; receptacle glabrous; sepals 5, reflexed, 1.5-2 × 0.8-1.2 mm, densely pubescent; petals 0-5, 1.1-1.8 × 0.2-0.7 mm. |
receptacle hirsute; sepals spreading or reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, glabrous or hirsute; petals 5, yellow, 4-6 × 3.5-5 mm. |
Heads of achenes | globose, 3-5 × 3-5 mm; achenes 10-20 per head, 1.7-2 × 1.4-1.7 mm, faces papillose, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous, margin smooth; beak deltate with slender recurved tip, 0.4-0.6 mm. |
globose or ovoid, 7-11 × 7-10 mm; achenes 2.4-3 × 2-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, straight or nearly so, 1-1.2 mm. |
Basal | and lower cauline leaf blades semicircular or reniform, 3-parted or -divided, 1.5-3.2 × 1-2.4 cm, again lobed, base cordate, margins dentate, apex rounded. |
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2n | = 32, 48. |
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Ranunculus parviflorus |
Ranunculus macounii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer (Mar–Jul). | Flowering spring–summer (May–Sep). |
Habitat | Roadsides, fields, and woods | Meadows, depressions in woodlands, ditches, edges of streams and ponds, on wet soil or emergent from shallow water |
Elevation | 50-200 m (200-700 ft) | 0-2900 m (0-9500 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; FL; GA; IL; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; native to Europe; Pacific Islands; Australia [Introduced in North America]
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NF; NT; ON; QC; SK; YT
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Discussion | Through most of its range, Ranunculus macounii has conspicuously hispid herbage. Glabrous plants are found, however, in the lower Columbia River valley (southwestern Washington and adjacent Oregon). This variant has been called R. macounii var. oreganus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Echinella | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Ranunculus |
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Synonyms | R. macounii var. oreganus | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1: 780. (1762) | Britton: Trans. New York Acad. Sci. 12: 3. (1892) |
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