| Ranunculus eschscholtzii Schlecht. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ranunculus nivalis var. eschscholtzii (Schlecht.) S. Wats. | ||
| Description | Stems glabrous, from short caudex; basal leaves glabrous, highly variable, circu- lar or semicircular in outline, often cordate at base, 3-cleft to divided, the middle lobe again 3-lobed, ultimate segments usually blunt; sepals 5, yellow, glabrous or with yellowish hairs; petals of highly variable size, yellow; receptacle cylindric, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, along creeks. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with R. nivalis probably occur. Specimens approaching var. Suksdorffii (Gray) Benson (R. Suksdorffii Gray), with acute end lobes on the basal leaves, occur rarely. |
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.