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Western Wild Buttercup - Ranunculus adoneus
Other Names:
Ranunculus eschscholtzii var. adoneus
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Reported for Montana by Whittemore (FNA)
General Description
Plants perennial. Stems 5-32 cm tall, ascending to erect, glabrous. Basal leaf blades simple,1-5 cm long, several times divided into usually linear segments 0.7-3 mm wide; cauline leaves similar but with progressively shorter petioles. Sepals 5, 3.5-10 mm long, pilose or glabrous, deciduous, spreading. Petals 5-12, 5-15 mm long, yellow. Achenes 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous, arranged 40-70 in an ovoid cluster; beaks 1.4-1.9 mm long, straight or recurved; receptacle glabrous (adapted from: Welsh et al., 1993, A Utah Flora, 2nd ed.).
Range Comments
ID, MT, south to NV, UT, WY and CO (Kartesz in prep. 2012).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 2
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Relative Density
Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Most areas near melting snow in meadows, talus slopes, and confierous communities (adapted from: Welsh et al., 1993, A Utah Flora, 2nd ed.).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus auricomus ,
Bombus bifarius ,
Bombus nevadensis , and
Bombus bimaculatus (Macior 1968, Thorp et al. 1983).
Stewardship Responsibility
References
Literature Cited AboveLegend: Bombus (Hymenoptera, Apidae) queen foraging in relation to vernal pollination in Wisconsin. Ecology 49:20-25.
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