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Photographer: Derek Anderson
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Family Ranunculaceae
Myosurus minimus L.
tiny mouse's-tail
Myosurus: from Greek mus, "mouse," and oura, "tail," for the mousetail-like appearance of the receptacle in fruit
minimus: smallest
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | annual forb |
| Flower: | yellowish to green, 5-parted, regular shape, sepals spurred at the base, petals about equal to sepals, pistils forming up to 2 1/3" long spike; solitary on a long stalk; blooms April-June |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | all basal, linear |
| Habitat: | moist |
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