Ranunculus cooleyae Vasey & Rose
 
FamilyRanunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae
SynonymsKumlienia cooleyae (Vasey & Rose) Greene, Arcteranthis cooleyae (Vasey & Rose) Greene.
DescriptionGlabrous, with short caudex; basal leaves circular in outline, divided into 3 crenately lobed parts; cauline leaf lacking or solitary, small, scalelike; flowers soli- tary; sepals glabrous, slightly longer than the numerous, narrow, yellow petals; fruiting head conical-ovate; fruits glabrous, with evenly tapering, long, hooked beak.
EcologySnow banks.
Hultén's Flora About

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.