Ranunculus abortivus

Ranunculus abortivus

Abortivus Ranunculus is a plant of the family Ranunculaceae.

Description

The stems are 10 to 60 inches long, erect or nearly erect and hairless. There are 3 to 50 flowers on each stem. The roots are 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters thick, thready and occasionally expanded at its base. The basal leaves are subject to change. Their leaf blades are 1.4 to 4.2 inches long and 2.5 to 2 centimeters wide, kidney-shaped to circular and undivided. Sometimes can be in three parts or dreiblättrig the innermost however. The leaf base is low to strongly cordate, leaf margin is very weak and rounded notched up limp - notched, the tip is rounded to obtuse - rounded. The flower stem is glabrous or nearly glabrous, the base of the flower hairy thin to very thin. Sepals are 2.5 to 4 mm long, 1-2 mm wide at the bottom and glabrous. The five petals are 1.5 to 3.5 mm long and 1-2 mm wide. The scale of the nectar gland is hairless. The heads of the achenes 3 to 6 millimeters in length, 2.5 to 5 millimeters wide, and ovoid. The achenes are glabrous and 1.4 to 1.6 mm long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide. The beak is 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters long, pfriemförmig and bent.

The chromosome number is 2n = 16

The flowering period extends from late winter ( March) to summer (July).

Occurrence

Ranunculus abortivus occurs in Canada and the United States of America. The type is missing in the far north (the largest part of Alaska, with the exception of the Kenai Peninsula, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nuvatu, and northern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador ), a large area in the southwest ( the boundary of the site runs here through British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas) and a smaller area in the southeast (the largest part of Florida and the South East of Georgia and South Carolina ). A disjoint occurrence is in the north of New Mexico.

The species grows in forests, grasslands, on wasteland and in clearings at altitudes 0-3100 meters.

System

Ranunculus abortivus was first described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus.

Use

Indian tribes used Ranunculus abortivus to various medical purposes.

Documents

• Alan T. Whittemore: Ranunculus abortivus. In: Flora of North America. Vol 3 online