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Photographer: Joanne Kline
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Family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus flabellaris Raf.
yellow water buttercup, yellow water crowfoot
Ranunculus: from Latin rana, "little frog," because many species tend to grow in moist places
flabellaris: fan like
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial aquatic, rarely completely out of the water; stems hollow |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 1/2"-1" wide, normally 5 sepals, petals about 2/3 bigger than the sepals; solitary flowers on long, stout stalks; blooms April-June |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | 2 times 3-parted; those above the water kidney shaped; submerged leaves with linear segments |
| Habitat: | shallows, quiet water |
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