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Photographer: Steve C. Garske
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Family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus cymbalaria Pursh
alkali buttercup, seaside crowfoot
Ranunculus: from Latin rana, "little frog," because many species tend to grow in moist places
cymbalaria: a name for ivy-leaved toad flax, from Greek kymbalon and/or Latin cymbalum for "cymbal," and referring to the rounded leaf shapes of some species
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| Status: | Threatened |
| Plant: | creeping, perennial, 2"-6" tall, hairless forb |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 1/3"-1/2" wide, normally 5 sepals, the linear petals slightly longer than the sepals; blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | dry seed in a short, cylindrical cluster 1/4"-1/2" long |
| Leaf: | main leaves heart or kidney shaped, not deeply lobed, rounded at the tip, mostly basal |
| Habitat: | mud; often spreading into ditches where roads salt accumulates |
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