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: LCLeast 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.