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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus pensylvanicus L.f.
bristly buttercup, bristly crowfoot, Pennsylvania buttercup
Ranunculus: from Latin rana, "little frog," because many species tend to grow in moist places
pensylvanicus: of Pennsylvania
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual/perennial, 8"-20" tall, hairy forb |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 1/4"-1/3" wide, normally 5 sepals, petals oblong with a wider tip and shorter than the sepals; a few solitary, short-stalked flowers; blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | dry seeds in a cylindrical cluster mostly 1/3"- 1/2" long |
| Leaf: | basal and stem leaves much the same shape; deeply 3 lobed, the lobes cut or toothed, the end lobe stalked; basal leaves dying early, the few stem leaves stalked |
| Habitat: | marshes, ditches, wet meadows |
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