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Ranunculus arcticus

  • Family name: Ranunculaceae
  • Common name: northern buttercup
  • Growth form: Forb
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Toolik Map: Ranunculus pedatifidus
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Ranunculus pedatifidus, Ranunculus pedatifidus affinis

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  1. Ranunculus arcticus    , northern buttercup
  2. Close-up of flower showing five yellow petals, more mature yellow anthers, and yellowish spiky styles of greenish carpels borne of a green receptacle.
    July 1999, Aulavik National Park, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada
    Image author: Susan Aiken ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Ranunculus arcticus    , northern buttercup
  2. Fruting plants growing under rock ledge
    July 1982, long the coast east of Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
    Image author: J.M. Gillett ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Ranunculus arcticus    , northern buttercup
  2. Growing on the sides of a gully
    July 1981, Sachs Harbor, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada
    Image author: J.M. Gillett ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Ranunculus arcticus    , northern buttercup
  2. Plants growing with Oxytropis borealis in gravel near the top of a pingo
    July 1999, Aulavik National Park, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada
    Image author: Susan Aiken ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Ranunculus arcticus    , northern buttercup
  2. Collected August 1927, Nicholson Island, Arctic Coast, Northwest Territories, Canada. Collected by A.E. and R.T. Porsild.
    Image author: unknown
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image