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Photographer: William S. Alverson
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Family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus gmelinii DC.
Gmelin's buttercup, small yellow water-crowfoot
Ranunculus: from Latin rana, "little frog," because many species tend to grow in moist places
gmelinii: for Johann Georg Gmelin (1709-1755)
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| Status: | Endangered |
| Plant: | perennial aquatic, rarely completely out of the water |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, normally 5 sepals about the same length as the petals; solitary flowers on long, stout stalks |
| Fruit: | dry seed with ribbed to winged margin, lance-shaped mostly straight beak |
| Leaf: | basal and stem leaves much the same shape; several times 3-parted with toothed lobes; submersed leaves in linear segments; those above the water pentagonal in outline |
| Habitat: | shallows, shores |
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