| Family | RANUNCULACEAE |
| Genus species | Ranunculus hyperboreus Rottb. |
| Bibliography | Skr. Kioebenhavnske Selsk. Laerd. Elsk. 10: 458 (1770) |
| Native Range | Subarctic & Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-3400m |
| Description | stoloniferous, leaves orbiculate or reniform, at base cuneate, 3-7-lobate or -sect, flowers small, solitary, revolute, petals obovate, scarcely exceeding sepals |
| Size | 3-5cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in spring just as young growth commences |
| Synonyms | Ranunculus ammannii Gunnerus Ranunculus hyperboreus var. europaeaus Ledeb. Ranunculus hyperboreus f. fluitans Porsild Ranunculus hyperboreus f. integrescens Savile & Calder Ranunculus hyperboreus var. intertextus (Greene) B.Boivin Ranunculus hyperboreus ssp. intertextus (Greene) B.M.Kapoor & Á.Löve Ranunculus hyperboreus var. multifidus (G.Don) Hook.f. & Thomson Ranunculus hyperboreus var. orientalis Ledeb. Ranunculus hyperboreus var. tricrenatus Rupr. Ranunculus hyperboreus ssp. tricrenatus (Rupr.) Á.Löve & D.Löve Ranunculus hyperboreus var. turquetilianus Polunin Ranunculus hyperboreus f. turquetilanus (Polunin) Saville & Calder Ranunculus intertextus Greene Ranunculus multifidus Pursh Ranunculus natans var. intertextus (Greene) L.D.Benson Ranunculus purshii var. multifidus G.Don Ranunculus radicans var. multifidus (G.Don) Regel Ranunculus sibiricus Spreng. Ranunculus tricrenatus (Rupr.) Trautv. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, ICE Iceland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (ASS Assam, EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) |