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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Ranunculaceae |
Genus: | Ranunculus |
Species: | R. glacialis
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Ranunculus glacialis | |
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Ranunculus glacialis, the glacier buttercup [1] or glacier crowfoot, is a plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is a 5-10(-20) cm high perennial herb. Often with a single relatively large (1.8 - 3.8 cm) flower, with 5 petals first white later pink or reddish. The underside of the 5 sepals are densely brown-hairy. The leaves are fleshy, shiny, and deeply loped, forming 3 leaflets. [2] [3] Ranunculus glacialis is reported (from Greenland material) to have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 16. [2]
Ranunculus glacialis is an Arctic–alpine species, found in the high mountains of southern Europe ( Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Sierra Nevada) as well as on the Scandinavian peninsula, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Jan Mayen, Svalbard, eastern Greenland [4] [5] and Finland, where is endangered and protected. [6]
It has been described as being one of the highest-ascending plant in the Alps, flowering at over 4,000 m. [7]
It is found in fell-field and snow-bed sites, on edges of meltwater streams. [6]
Several subspecies are described. [8]
One subspecies, Ranunculus glacialis subsp. chamissonis, is found on either side of the Bering Strait in Siberia, Russia and Alaska, U.S..
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Ranunculus glacialis | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Ranunculaceae |
Genus: | Ranunculus |
Species: | R. glacialis
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Binomial name | |
Ranunculus glacialis | |
Synonyms | |
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Ranunculus glacialis, the glacier buttercup [1] or glacier crowfoot, is a plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is a 5-10(-20) cm high perennial herb. Often with a single relatively large (1.8 - 3.8 cm) flower, with 5 petals first white later pink or reddish. The underside of the 5 sepals are densely brown-hairy. The leaves are fleshy, shiny, and deeply loped, forming 3 leaflets. [2] [3] Ranunculus glacialis is reported (from Greenland material) to have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 16. [2]
Ranunculus glacialis is an Arctic–alpine species, found in the high mountains of southern Europe ( Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Sierra Nevada) as well as on the Scandinavian peninsula, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Jan Mayen, Svalbard, eastern Greenland [4] [5] and Finland, where is endangered and protected. [6]
It has been described as being one of the highest-ascending plant in the Alps, flowering at over 4,000 m. [7]
It is found in fell-field and snow-bed sites, on edges of meltwater streams. [6]
Several subspecies are described. [8]
One subspecies, Ranunculus glacialis subsp. chamissonis, is found on either side of the Bering Strait in Siberia, Russia and Alaska, U.S..
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