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Photographer: Paul Slichter
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Family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus testiculatus Crantz
bur buttercup, curve-seed butterwort
Ranunculus: from Latin rana, "little frog," because many species tend to grow in moist places
testiculatus: testic for testicle; atus for like
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, annual, to 4" tall forb, finely fuzzy |
| Flower: | pale yellow to whitish, normally 5 greenish sepals; petals smaller, narrower, with time the veins becoming pink |
| Fruit: | dry seed, in cylindrical or oval bur |
| Leaf: | 2 or 3 times deeply 3- lobed, segments narrow |
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