| Ranunculus gelidus subsp. grayi (Britt.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ranunculus grayi Britt. | ||
| Description | Flowering stem from short caudex, 1-3-flowered, often bent at right angle just above surface of soil, pubescent above; basal leaves 3-parted and again cleft and lobed, ultimate segments blunt; sepals grayish-pubescent on back; petals yellow, longer than sepals; fruit with stout beak. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, scree slopes. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The typical plant has a glabrous receptacle; plants with pubescent receptacle occur at Shumagin Islands (var. shumaginénsis Hult.). Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. gelidus. |
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.