| Ranunculus sceleratus subsp. multifidus (Nutt.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ranunculus sceleratus var. multifidus Nutt. | ||
| Common name | cursed crowfoot | ||
| Description | Yellowish-green, annual; stem branched, pubescent above; basal leaves deeply 3-parted and again deeply parted or divided; sepals yellowish-green; petals pale yellow; fruiting head ovoid; fruit with minute depressions on sides. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. R. sceleratus described from Europe, subsp. multifidus from the Platte River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. | ||
| Uses | Contains much protoanemonin; if the leaves are rubbed against the skin, wounds may occur. |
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.