| Ranunculus cymbalaria Pursh | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Halerpestes cymbalaria (Pursh) Greene. | ||
| Description | Tufted, with filiform stolons, rooting at nodes; leaves rounded, reniform, or cor- date, crenate; in var. alpina Hook., small, rectangular, 3-toothed in apex; flowers small; sepals and petals usually 5, 3-5 mm long; sepals glabrous; petals yellow, about as long as sepals; fruiting head ovate to cylindrical; fruits with short beak; receptacle hairy. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, brackish water; sometimes apparently spread by human activity. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates range of the entire species complex; part of this range represents introduced populations, as for example, in Europe. |
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.