Family | RANUNCULACEAE |
Genus species | Oxygraphis kamchatica (DC.) R.R.Stewart |
Bibliography | Fl. W Pakistan Annot. Cat.: 268 (1972) |
Native Range | e. Europe to Russian Far East and c. China, Aleutian Islands to sw. Alaska |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-5300m |
Description | glabrous, leaves ovate to elliptic, 5-30mm, entire, obtuse, scape glabrous, flowers solitary, 15-30mm, sepals 5, coriaceous, glabrous, persistent, petals 12-19, oblong |
Size | 5-10cm |
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 | Caltha camtschatica Spreng. Caltha glacialis (Fisch. ex DC.) Spreng. Caltha kamchatica (DC.) Spreng. Ficaria glacialis Fisch. ex DC. Oxygraphis glacialis (Fisch. ex DC.) Bunge Ranunculus camtschaticus Steud. Ranunculus kamchaticus DC. Ranunculus dodecapetalus Stephan ex Ledeb. |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai) 37 Mongolia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska) |