Ranunculus peltatus Schrank subsp. baudotii (Godron) C. D. K. Cook

Spice Detail In the field

Family: RANUNCULACEAE

Genus: Ranunculus

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Girona. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hydrophyte.

Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Wetlands and watercourses.

Characteristics: A rhizomatous plant characterized by two leaf types: one very divided, the other are only lobate. Flowers are very pendunculate and white with a pilose receptacle. Fructifies forming apical glomerules, very compressed with small achenes of a lesser size (<1 mm.); differs form the rest of the subspecies by its leaf form, the fructiferous receptacle and the size and arrangement of the petals.

Observations: A classification key is indispensable to correctly identify all of the subspecies.