| Ranunculus nivalis L. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Common name | snow buttercup | ||
| Description | Stems single from short caudex, glabrous below, more or less brown-hispid above; basal leaves several, glabrous, with reniform outline, cleft into 3-5 lobes, which are usually again lobed or toothed; stem leaves 1-3, sessile; flower solitary, highly variable in size; sepals 5, pubescent, from brown, stiff hairs; petals longer than sepals, yellow, glabrous; fruiting head elliptic-oblong; fruit with long, somewhat curved beak; receptacle glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, along brooks in the mountains and on tundra, snow beds. De- scribed from Lapland and Switzerland. |
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.