EARLY BUTTERCUP
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Ranunculus fascicularis Muhl. ex Bigel.
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| Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 2-12 inches |
| Family: Ranunculaceae - Buttercup Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Also Called: | | Prairie tufted buttercup. | | Stems: | | Erect to ascending, single or in tufts, simple or little-branched, grey or whitish hairy below. | | Leaves: | | Basal leaves on stalks 1 to 4 inches long, pinnately 3- to 5-parted or some merely 3-lobed, ovate in outline, .6 to 2.2 inches long, .4 to 1.6 inch wide; leaf segments linear to oblong, entire or shallowly toothed or often 3-cleft; most ultimate segments narrow, linear to oblong, entire or shallowly lobed, stalked; tip blunt or rounded; stem leaves reduced when present, segments 1-3, narrow. | | Inflorescences: | | Cluster, sparse, 1- to 4-flowered, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Sepals 5, ovate, 1/4 to 1/3 inch long, greenish-yellow, spreading, appressed-hairy; petals 5, elliptic to oblong, 1/3 to 2/3 inch long, yellow; stamens usually 40-60. | | Fruits: | | Achenes, nearly circular, less than 1/8 inch long, smooth, 10-35 in spherical head. | | Habitat: | | Prairies and dry woods. | | Distribution: | | East 1/4 of Kansas. |
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| Early buttercup flower |  | | 61 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| | Early buttercup flower |  | | 66 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| | Early buttercup sepals |  | | 77 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| | Early buttercup leaves |  | | 72 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
| | Early buttercup leaves |  | | 92 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
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| | Early buttercup leaf |  | | 67 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
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