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Balkan Buttercup

Ranunculus psilostachys

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Description:

Small clump-forming, with slender root tubers and flowering stems 20-35cm in height. Basal leaves tripartite, the leaflets shortly three to seven-lobed, densely pilose or subsericeus. Flowers up to ten per stem, lustrous yellow.

Habitat:

Stony grassland in Seih-Sou, the suburban pine forest of Thessaloniki (Greece).
Distribution: Balkan peninsula and western Turkey.

Reference Links:

Ranunculus psilostachys - Overview, Balkanischer Hahnenfuß – Wikipedia

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PublishedApril 20, 2016

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