| Ranunculus pedatifidus subsp. affinis (R. Br.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Ranunculus pedatifidus var. affinis (R. Br.) Benson, Ranunculus affinis var. leiocarpa Trautv., Ranunculus pedatifidus var. leiocarpa (Trautv.) Fern., Ranunculus verticillatus Eastw., Ranunculus affinis R. Br. | ||
| Description | Stem tall, slender, glabrous or somewhat pubescent; basal leaves glabrous or somewhat ciliate, deeply cleft; lateral leaf lobes again cleft into 3 to several lobes or teeth; bracts sessile, divided into linear lobes, forming 2 or 3 verticillate whorls; sepals pubescent, rarely glabrous; flowers highly variable in size, 10-25 cm in diameter; petals longer than sepals; fruit glabrous or (rarely) pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, grassy slopes. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The range in central Asia belongs to subsp. pedatifidus. |
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.