Ranunculus gmelini DC.
 
FamilyRanunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae
SynonymsRanunculus purshii subsp. yukonensis (Britt.) Pors., Ranunculus gmelini var. typicus Benson, Ranunculus gmelini var. yukonensis Benson, Ranunculus purshii var. gmelini D. Don, Ranunculus yukonensis Britt.
DescriptionCreeping in mud or floating in water; stem sparsely hirsute, rooting at nodes; leaves divided into 3 parts, which are again divided or lobed and finely dissected into linear, elongated divisions, acute in submerged forms; flowers 6-10 mm in diameter; petals longer than sepals, yellow; achenes glabrous, with broad, recurved beak.
EcologyWet mud, ponds. Described from Siberia.
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.