Basal leaves

Ovate to broadly ovate; 2.1-4.7 x 1.9-4.5 cm; compound 3-5 foliolate, leaflets undivided or 1x-lobed or parted, ultimate segments oblanceolate or obovate, margins entire or with few teeth, apex rounded-acute to rounded-obtuse; petioles to 1 dm. long.

Cauline leaves

Usually 1 or 2, alternate, much-reduced; pedicels 1.5-6 cm.

Ecology

Grows in sandy soils in shallow water, low pinelands, meadows and seepage slopes.  Often in open fields, roadsides, etc.

Family

RANUNCULACEAE Jussieu (Crowfoot Family or Buttercup Family)

Flowering period

Winter to spring (January-June).

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Flowers

Receptacle, sepals, and petals hispid or glabrous; sepals 5, greenish-yellow, spreading or sometimes reflexed at base, ovate-attenuate, silvery pubescent, 5-7 x 2-3 mm; petals 5 (7), yellow, 8-14 x 3-6 mm; stamens 40-50. 

Fruit

Head of achenes globose or ovoid, 5-9 x 5-8 mm, achenes 2-2.8 x 1.8-2.2 mm, glabrous, smooth with margin forming narrow rib; beak persistant, filiform, straight, 1.2-2.8 mm.

Habit and stem features

Herbaceous perennial; weak stems erect, suberect or ascending, not rooted nodally.  Pubescence is strigose or spreading strigose.  Roots both filiform and tuberous on the same plant.   

Place of Species Publication

Ranunculus fascicularis Muhl. ex Bigelow, Florula Bostoniensis, pg. 137.1814

References

Connell, D.S., and M. C. Johnson.  1970.  Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas , Vol.6. Texas Research Foundation, Renner TX , pg.s 647,648.