Ranunculus peltatus Schrank subsp. peltatus
Family: RANUNCULACEAE
Genus: Ranunculus
Province distribution: Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Girona. Lleida.
Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.
General distribution (Phytogeography): Holoartica
IUCN Category: Least concern
Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Life-forms: Hydrophyte.
Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Salt marshes and non-saline wetlands.
Characteristics: A rhizomatous plant characterized by two leaf types: one very divided, the other is 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 mainly in size, as the others are much larger.