Ranunculus rhomboideus |
Ranunculus gormanii |
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Labrador buttercup, prairie buttercup, prairie crowfoot |
Gorman's buttercup |
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Roots | slender, 0.8-1.8 mm thick. |
thickened basally, glabrous. |
Stems | erect, 5-22 cm, pilose or occasionally glabrous, each with 3-12 flowers. |
prostrate, sometimes rooting nodally, glabrous. |
Basal leaves | persistent, blades ovate to rhombic, undivided or rarely innermost 3-parted, 1.1-5.3 × 0.9-3.6 cm, base obtuse, margins crenate with 5 crenae, apex rounded. |
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Proximal cauline leaf blades | narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-2 cm, base rounded, truncate or sometimes obtuse, margins entire or denticulate, apex obtuse or acute. |
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Inflorescences | bracts ovate or sometimes lanceolate. |
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Flowers | pedicels pilose; receptacle pilose; sepals 4-6 × 1.5-3 mm, abaxially pilose, hairs colorless; petals 5, 6-8 × 2-4 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
receptacle glabrous; sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from near base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous; petals 5-6, 4-6 × 2-4 mm; nectary scales glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | depressed-globose, 4-6 × 5-7 mm; achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.2-1.8 mm, glabrous; beak slender, curved, 0.2-0.3 mm. |
hemispheric, 2-3 × 3-4 mm; achenes 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak lanceolate to subulate, straight or curved, 0.6-0.8 mm. |
2n | = 16. |
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Ranunculus rhomboideus |
Ranunculus gormanii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring (Apr–Jun). | Flowering spring–summer (May–Jul). |
Habitat | Prairies, or occasionally open woods or thickets | Damp soil of meadows and stream banks |
Elevation | 0-900 m (0-3000 ft) | 900-3300 m (3000-10800 ft) |
Distribution |
IA; IL; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; SD; WI; AB; BC; MB; NT; ON; SK
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CA; OR
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Discussion | In addition to the range given above, L. D. Benson (1948) cited nineteenth-century specimens from Quebec, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. No modern specimens have been seen from those areas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ranunculus gormanii is restricted to middle elevations in the Klamath and southern Cascade Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Flammula |
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Name authority | Goldie: Edinburgh J. Sci. 6: 329. (1822) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 91. (1896) |
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