Ranunculus testiculatus

Tubercled crowfoot

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Tubercled crowfoot is a naturalized annual found in southern Sierra Nevada foothills, Tehachapi, San Bernardino Mountains, Great Basin, and Desert Mountains in disturbed grassland areas at elevations of 1,000 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces small pale yellow flowers approximately 3 to 5 millimeters wide with five delicate petals. Growing with erect or ascending stems 1 to 6 centimeters tall, it forms a compact, low-growing habit. Its basal leaves are widely spoon-shaped, intricately dissected into fine linear segments with entire margins, typically 0.9 to 3.8 centimeters long. The fruit is an ellipsoid body with a persistent lanceolate beak 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Disturbed areas, especially in grassland

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 1000-2300 m

Bioregions: s SNF, Teh, SnBr, GB, DMtns

California counties: San Bernardino, San Diego, Siskiyou, Modoc, Mono, Inyo, Sacramento, Kern, Ventura, Riverside, Lassen, Merced, Nevada, Tehama, Shasta, San Luis Obispo, Plumas, Humboldt, Monterey, Los Angeles

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