Pyrenees buttercup

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Pyrenees buttercup
Pyrenean buttercup (Ranunculus pyrenaeus)

Pyrenean buttercup ( Ranunculus pyrenaeus )

Systematics
Order : Buttercups (Ranunculales)
Family : Buttercup Family (Ranunculaceae)
Subfamily : Ranunculoideae
Tribe : Ranunculeae
Genre : Buttercup ( Ranunculus )
Type : Pyrenees buttercup
Scientific name
Ranunculus pyrenaeus
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The Pyrenean buttercup ( Ranunculus pyrenaeus ) is a species of the genus buttercup ( Ranunculus ).

features

Ranunculus pyrenaeus is a perennial, herbaceous plant that usually reaches heights of 5 to 15 centimeters. The leaves are entire. The basal leaves are not divided. Your leaf blade is linear to lanceolate, grassy and glabrous. The stem leaves do not encompass the stem. The one to three flowered plant has hairless flower stalks . The flowering period extends from May to July.

The Pyrenean buttercup is diploid and tetraploid, so its chromosome number is 2n = 16 or 32.

Pyrenean buttercup, flowers

Subspecies

Ranunculus pyrenaeus subsp. angustifolius (DC.) Rouy & Fouc. (Syn. Ranunculus angustifolius DC. ) Is smaller, always single-flowered, is diploid.

Possible confusion

The similar Ranunculus kuepferi Greuter & Burdet (Syn. Ranunculus pyrenaeus subsp. Plantagineus (All.) Rouy & Fouc. ), A robust, to ten-flowered plant with a height of 5 to 30 (sometimes 40) centimeters, has wider leaves and often branched stems with hairy peduncles above .

Occurrence

Ranunculus pyrenaeus occurs in France and Spain, in the Pyrenees on moist lawns.
Ranunculus kuepferi can be found in Corsica and in the Alps in similar locations.

use

The Pyrenean buttercup is rarely used as an ornamental plant for rock gardens. The species has been in culture at least since 1807.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Rothmaler Exkursionsflora von Deutschland. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 , p. 146.
  2. ↑ a b c Antony Huxley, Flore de Montagne (adaption française de Luc Brunerye) , Fernand Nathan, Paris, 1973, p. 206.
  3. ↑ Jaakko Jalas, Juha Suominen: Atlas florae europaeae . Volume 8 (Nymphaeaceae to Ranunculaceae). Pages 204-205, Helsinki 1989. ISBN 951-9108-07-6
  4. ↑ a b c Flora Europaea , 2nd edition, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-521-41007-X , p. 284.

Web links

Commons : Pyrenean Buttercup ( Ranunculus pyrenaeus )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Ranunculus kuepferi ( Ranunculus kuepferi )  - album with pictures, videos and audio files