| Ranunculus pallasii Schlecht. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous; flowers and leaves scattered, from long floating rhizome, rooting at nodes; leaves highly variable in form, from simple oblong-linear to cuneate, broadly 2-3-lobed, with blunt lobes; flowers single, up to 2.8 mm in diameter; petals 5 to numerous, usually white or sometimes reddish; achenes with short, recurved beak, in semispherical head. | ||
| Ecology | Ponds on tundra. Described from St. George Island and Kotzebue Sound. | ||
| Uses | The young shoots are eaten boiled by the natives. |
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.