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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Magnar on June 14, 2008, 08:07:32 AM

Title: Ranunculus id
Post by: Magnar on June 14, 2008, 08:07:32 AM

Can anybody please help me with a name for this Ranunculus:

(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Ranunculus%20sp.jpg)

The photo shows the actual size of the plant.

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: WimB on June 14, 2008, 09:00:53 AM

it might be Ranunculus glacialis, but I'm not certain.

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: Magnar on June 14, 2008, 09:30:05 AM

I have R. galcialis from the mountains close to the Swedish border, and it looks quite different from this one. The flowers are smaller and the foliage is also different.

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: arisaema on June 14, 2008, 11:34:57 AM

Ranunculus seguieri?

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: ranunculus on June 14, 2008, 12:37:45 PM

100% Ranunculus seguieri Magnar.  I grow four or five different forms of R. seguieri and your example is most like plants found near Falzarego in the Dolomites.  See the attached image of my Farrer plant and a plant captured in the Falzarego area.

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: Paul T on June 14, 2008, 01:06:31 PM

Excellent photos Cliff.  The Farrer Medal plant is stunning.

I always thought that plants were "collected" from the wild, not "captured".  ;)  Sort of gives you visions of mad rampaging Ranunculus that'll take your hand off if you aren't careful.  ;D

Great to see you have an ID Magnar.  It has such clean and perfect flowers!!

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: Magnar on June 14, 2008, 02:24:19 PM

Thanks for the id. Always good to have a name. That plant must have been planted last year, but I can not recall anything about where I got it, and there was no label to help me.

Thanks again  :)

Title: Re: Ranunculus id
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 14, 2008, 11:04:25 PM

Dear God, they are beautiful!