Ranunculus platensis |
Ranunculus hispidus |
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prairie buttercup |
bristly buttercup, hispid crowfoot, renoncule hispide |
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Roots | never tuberous. |
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Stems | decumbent, sparsely pilose. |
erect or decumbent, sometimes rooting nodally, hispid or strigose, base not bulbous. |
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Basal leaf blades | ovate to deltate in outline, 3-foliolate or outer blades merely 3-parted, 2-13.4 × 2.4-16.8 cm, leaflets undivided to lobed or parted, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate to circular, margins toothed, apex acuminate to rounded. |
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Flowers | sessile; receptacle glabrous or pilose; sepals 3, spreading, 1-2 × 0.5-1 mm, hirsute; petals 3, 1-2 × 0.5-0.8 mm. |
receptacle hispid; sepals spreading or reflexed, 4-10 × 2-5 mm, hispid; petals 5, yellow, 8-16 × 3-9 mm. |
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Heads of achenes | hemispheric, 2-2.5 × 3-3.5 mm; achenes 10-15 per head, 1.3-1.7 × 1-1.3 mm, faces and proximal margin finely papillate, each papilla crowned with hooked bristle, otherwise glabrous; beak semicircular to deltate, curved, 0.2-0.5 mm. |
hemispheric to short-ovoid, 6-10 × 7-10 mm; achenes 2.2-5.2 × 2-3.8 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib or broad wing 0.1-1.2 mm wide; beak persistent, lance-subulate, straight or somewhat curved, 0.8-2.6 mm. |
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Basal | and lower cauline leaf blades reniform, 3-parted, 0.8-1.7 × 1.2-2 cm, segment base cordate, margins dentate or lobulate, apex rounded-obtuse. |
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Ranunculus platensis |
Ranunculus hispidus |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–spring (Feb–Apr). | |||||||||
Habitat | Weed in disturbed areas, usually near coast | |||||||||
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; TX; native to South America (s Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) [Introduced in North America]
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AL; AR; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC
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Discussion | Varieties 3 Until recently, the varieties of Ranunculus hispidus were usually treated as distinct species. Arguments for restoring species status to R. hispidus var. nitidus were given by G. L. Nesom (1993). (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 | A. Sprengel: in K. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 5: 586. (1828) | Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 321. (1803) | ||||||||
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