Basal leaves

3- lobed or deeply parted, simple; Hirsute petioles 5- 10 cm: Blades  2 -7.5 cm long and 3 – 15 cm broad, cordate – reniform in outline; Margins  lobed to crenate or toothed; Bases cordate; Apices rounded or angled ( acute or obtuse)

Cauline leaves

similar to basal but smaller.

Ecology

Mesic woods, stream banks , swamps and bottomland thickets

Family

Flowering period

March - June

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Flowers

Pedicels 1-8 mm long in flower , 1-5 cm long in fruit, sparsely appressed, pubescent; Sepals 5, greenish , 4-7 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad sparsely pilose; Corolla 5-9 petals , 2.5-6 mm long and 1-2 mm wide , yellow , narrowly elliptic; Stamens 10-25

Fruit

Achenes glabrous, green – yellowish, 1.5 – 2.2mm long and broad , suborbicular , flat with narrow margin that forms a rib , hooked beak 0.5- 1.4 mm long, found in globose heads of 10-25 achenes .

Habit and stem features

Perennnial; Herbaceous; Stems 1.5-6 dm tall, erect, branching mostly above , never rooting at nodes; bulbous corm like base; villous- hirsute.

Place of Species Publication

Ranunculus  recurvatus  P oiret in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 6: 125.1804.

References

Correll, Donovan S. and Marshall C. Johnson. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas. vol. 6, Texas Research Foundation. Renner, TX, 645.

IPNI. 2004. The International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/index.html.

Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland, Second edition, Volume I-checklist.

LouisianaState University Herbarium. 2005. (www.herbarium.lsu.edu). A257 Life Sciences Annex Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1705 USA.

Radford, Albert. E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas . The University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill , North Carolina . 463.

Thomas, R. Dale and Charles M. Allen. 1998. Atlas of the Vascular Flora of Louisiana. vol. 3: Dicotyledons Fabaceae - Zygophyllaceae. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Natural Heritage Program. 127-128.

USDA, NRCS. 2004. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov).National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

Whittemore, Alan T. and Bruce D. Parfitt. 1997. Ranunculaceae in vol.3. Flora of North America Committee, eds. Flora of North America North of Mexico. 1993+, 7+ vols. New York and Oxford. 

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Synonyms

 Ranunculus recurvatus var. adpressipilis Weatherby

 Ranunculus recurvatus var. typicus L. Benson