Ranulculus Genus - The Buttercups
Ranunculaceae -The Buttercup Family
Ranunculus |
adoneus Alpine Buttercup |
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Ranunculus adoneus, Alpine Buttercup, old snowbank hollow just North east of Weston Pass, Colorado, 12,000 Feet, September 6, 2007. |
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alismaefolius Plantainleaf Buttercup
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| Ranunculus alismaefolius (little frog), Plantainleaf Buttercup, growing near the shore of Summit Lake, 10,400 feet, above Steamboat Springs, Colorado. A sparsely leed buttercup common in a meadow near the Western lake shore. Impression is mainly of flowers and stems. Height 9 inches, stems hollow, stem leaves at nodes. Leaves are 90 mm long, 26 mm wide. Flowers in threes from nodes, flower width 16 mm., petals 5 mm long, 5-6 petals, flowers look ragged. | |||||
| Ranunculus |
inamoenus Fanleaf Buttercup
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| Ranunculus inamoenus, Fanleaf Buttercup, growing in a marshy spring above the Randall Davy Audubon Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 8,000 Feet, May 21, 2003. | |||||
