Family | RANUNCULACEAE |
Genus species | Ranunculus eschscholtzii Schltdl. |
Synonyms | Ranunculus helleri Rydb. |
Ranunculus ocreatus Greene | |
Ranunculus pauperculus Ovcz. | |
Habitat | scree and moraines |
Altitude | 0-4000m |
Description | glabrous, basal leaves with thin petiole, blade reniform to obovate, shallowly trilobate to tripinnatisect, flowers 1-3, sepals yellowish hirsute, deciduous, petals 7-15mm long |
Size | 20-25cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft, fl. stem ascending |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in spring just as young growth commences |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Kuril Is. , Magadan ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (Alberta , British Columbia ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Idaho , Montana , Oregon , Washington , Wyoming ) Southwestern U.S.A. (Arizona , California , Nevada , Utah ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | RANUNCULACEAE
eschscholtzii eximius (Greene) L.D.Benson, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 68: 654 (1941)
eschscholtzii oxynotus (A.Gray) Jeps., Fl. Calif. [Jepson] 1: 537 (1922)
eschscholtzii suksdorfii (A.Gray) L.D.Benson, Amer. J. Bot. 23: 170 (1936)
eschscholtzii trisectus (Eastw.) L.D.Benson, ibid.
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