Ranunculus sardous |
Ranunculus triternatus |
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hairy buttercup, hairy crowfoot |
Dalles Mountain buttercup, obscure buttercup |
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Roots | cylindric, 2-3 mm thick. |
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Stems | nearly erect, hispid, base not bulbous. |
prostrate or ascending, 5-20 cm, glabrous, each with 1-6 flowers. |
Basal leaves | persistent, blades rhombic to deltate or reniform in outline, 3-4x-dissected, 1.1-3.4 × 2-3.1 cm, segments linear, base obtuse, margins crenate, apices of segments narrowly rounded. |
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Flowers | pedicellate; receptacle pilose; sepals 5, reflexed, 3-8 × 1.5-3 mm, pilose; petals 5, 7-10 × 4-8 mm. |
pedicels glabrous; receptacle short-pubescent; sepals 4-8 × 2-5 mm, abaxially glabrous or nearly so; petals 5, 6-15 × 4-10 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | globose or ovoid, 5-8 × 6-7 mm; achenes 15-35 per head, 2-3 × 2-3 mm, faces sparsely papillate or sometimes smooth, glabrous, margin smooth; beak oblong to deltate, curved, 0.4-0.7 mm. |
depressed-globose, 4-6 × 5-8 mm; achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.2-1.8 mm, finely pubescent; beak subulate, straight, 0.8-1.5 mm. |
Basal | and lower cauline leaf blades ovate to cordate, 3-foliolate, 2-6 × 2-6 cm, leaflets again parted, leaflet base truncate to acute, margins crenate-dentate to crenate-lobulate, apex rounded to obtuse. |
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Ranunculus sardous |
Ranunculus triternatus |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–summer (Mar–Aug). | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Roadsides, fields, open woods | Grassland or sagebrush |
Elevation | 0-200 m (0-700 ft) | 900-1700 m (3000-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; FL; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; BC; native to Europe; Pacific Islands; Australia [Introduced in North America]
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ID; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Ranunculus sardous was collected in New Brunswick and Ontario in the 1800s, but it apparently has not persisted in those provinces. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. C. L. Hitchcock et al. (1955-1969, vol. 2) considered the name Ranunculus triternatus A. Gray to be an illegitemate homonym and used the illegitimate (superfluous) name R. reconditus A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride for this species. The name Ranunculus triternatus Poiret was not validly published (not accepted by Poiret) and does not invalidate R. triternatus A. Gray. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Echinella | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Epirotes |
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Synonyms | R. parvulus | R. glaberrimus var. reconditus |
Name authority | Crantz: Stirp. Austr. Fasc. 2: 84. (1763) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 21: 370. (1886) |
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