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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ranunculus fascicularis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ranunculus fascicularis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Ranunculus fascicularis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Ranunculus fascicularis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Ranunculus fascicularis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Ranunculus fascicularis

 

COMMON NAME:
Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup


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image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_rafa_001_lvd

        

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

JK Marlow    jkm100314_047

March    Decatur County    GA

Leaves mostly basal, divided into lobed and toothed segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

JK Marlow    jkm100314_051

March    Decatur County    GA

Leaves mostly basal, longer than wide, terminal segment stalked, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

JK Marlow    jkm100314_052

March    Decatur County    GA

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

JK Marlow    jkm120403_417

April    Henderson County    NC

Holmes Educational Forest

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

JK Marlow    jkm120403_419

April    Henderson County    NC

Holmes Educational Forest

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

JK Marlow    jkm120403_421

April    Henderson County    NC

Holmes Educational Forest

image of Ranunculus fascicularis, Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_r_fascicularis_n

April    Floyd County    GA

Little Dry Creek Natural Area

Petals longer than they are broad, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Ranunculus fascicularis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ranunculus fascicularis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Ranunculus fascicularis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Ranunculus fascicularis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Ranunculus fascicularis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ranunculus fascicularis

 

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3221

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wet flats with prairie affinities (with Camassia scilloides), rocky barrens and glades over mafic rocks (such as gabbro or diabase), ultramafic outcrop barrens (over olivine), limestone barrens, prairies, oak savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare, scattered and disjunct in our area

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LEAVES:
Larger leaves: mostly pinnately 3-7-foliolate, terminal leaflet larger than lateral leaflets
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
3-5 sepals
5 petals, longer than the sepals
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Aggregate of achenes

 

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