Ranunculus lapponicus L.
 
FamilyRanunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae
DescriptionGlabrous; stems and leaves spread from white, creeping rhizome; leaves long- petiolated, deeply 3-parted, the middle part 3-5-toothed, the lateral parts 2-lobed and toothed; stem single-flowered, with sessile stem leaf; sepals 3; petals 6-8, some- what longer than sepals, yellow; achenes constricted at middle, easily falling off; beak of achene shorter than body, hooked.
EcologyWet forests, bogs, black-spruce muskeg, peaty soil.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.