Ranunculus glacialis

Ranunculus glacialis, the glacier buttercup or glacier crowfoot, is a plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It is a 5-10(-20) cm high perennial herb. Often with a single relatively large (1.8 - 3.8 cm) flower, with 5 petals first white later pink or reddish. The underside of the 5 sepals are densely brown-hairy. The leaves are fleshy, shiny, and deeply loped, forming 3 leaflets. Ranunculus glacialis reported (from Greenland material) to have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 16.

Ranunculus glacialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Ranunculus
Species:
R. glacialis
Binomial name
Ranunculus glacialis
Synonyms
  • Beckwithia glacialis (L.) Löve & Löve
  • Oxygraphis glacialis Regel
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