Ranunculus eschscholtzii

Eschscholtz's buttercup

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Eschscholtz's buttercup is a California native perennial herb found in alpine and subalpine habitats at elevations ranging from high mountain zones. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small yellow flowers with 5 to 8 delicate petals 6 to 13 millimeters long. Growing with erect or decumbent stems 5 to 25 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive branching stems with deeply divided leaves. Its leaves feature rounded segment tips, with upper stem leaves becoming much-reduced and intricately parted. The fruit develops as a small lenticular body with a straight lanceolate beak approximately 1 to 2 millimeters long.

California counties: Fresno, Mono, Inyo, Tulare, El Dorado, San Bernardino, Riverside, Tuolumne, Madera, Glenn, Siskiyou, Alpine, Mariposa, Shasta, Santa Barbara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.