| Ranunculus hyperboreus Rottb. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stem creeping in mud or floating; leaves small, 3-5-lobed, in submerged specimens sometimes divided and again parted; peduncles arched; sepals and petals 3 (—4); sepals glabrous; petals about 4 mm long, with short claw; fruiting head ovate; fruits with short, straight beak, hooked in apex. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, ponds, wet tundra, snow beds. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Plants occurring in nitrogen-rich soil (in inhibited areas) are much larger and more luxuriant. |
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.