| Ranunculus pygmaeus Wahlenb. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Common name | dwarf buttercup | ||
| Description | Small plant with vertical caudex; stems ascending, 1-flowered, pubescent with white hairs; radical leaves glabrous, somewhat ciliated in margin, flabelliform to reniform, deeply cleft into 3-5 lobes; upper leaves reduced; pedicels pubescent; sepals and petals 5; sepals yellowish, short-haired; petals 2—4 mm long; achenes about 1 mm long, glabrous, with beak hooked in apex; receptacle cylindric, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, snow beds in the mountains, to at least 2,000 meters. |
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.