Ranunculus glaberrimus var. ellipticus

Elliptical buttercup

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Elliptical buttercup is a California native perennial found in northern Sierra Nevada eastern slope, northern Sierra Nevada East, and White and Inyo Mountains in moist, seepy slopes at elevations of 1,200 to 3,600 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in small, delicate clusters. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms compact clumps in alpine and subalpine environments. Its basal leaves are distinctively elliptical, 1.5 to 5.2 centimeters long and up to 2 centimeters wide, with occasionally three wide, rounded teeth at the leaf tip and an acute to rounded point.

Habitat: Moist, seepy slopes

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 1200-3600 m

Bioregions: n SNH (e slope), MP, n SNE, W&ampI

California counties: Modoc, Nevada, Tulare, Siskiyou, Mono, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Placer

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