15 centimetre ruler for scale

Basal leaves in above photo

Stem leaf in above photo 

Upright plant with long flower stems. Flowers bright yellow, large (for Ranunculus) to 2 cm diameter with petals 1 cm or more long, 1 to 4 flowers per flower stem. The edges of the petals touch one another. Flower stems sparsely hairy with long hairs. Numerous basal leaves with long stalks, deeply cleft,  palmately 3-lobed. Upper leaves sessile, dissected into 3 lobes.

Habitat is damp meadows. Listed as common by Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan. Non-native, introduced from Europe.

To distinguish this plant from other Ranunculus species look for: long flowers stems, flowers with petals 1 cm or longer, palmately lobed basal leaves.

Budd's Flora lists the height 30 - 80 cm, we measured plants to 48 cm tall.

Photos taken June 24th, moist disturbed area on edge of woods, Boreal Forest about 500 km northeast of our home in Regina, SK.

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