Common Name: BUTTERCUP FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, woody vine [shrub], occasionally aquatic. Leaf: generally basal and cauline, alternate or opposite, simple or compound; petioles at base generally flat, occasionally sheathing or stipule-like. Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, or flowers 1. Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial; sepals 3--6(20), free, early-deciduous or withering in fruit, generally green; petals 0--many, generally free; stamens generally 5--many, staminodes generally 0; pistils 1--many, ovary superior, chamber 1, style 0--1, generally +- persistent as beak, ovules 1--many. Fruit: achene, follicle, berry, +- utricle in Trautvetteria, in aggregate or not, 1--many-seeded. Genera In Family: +- 60 genera, 1700 species: worldwide, especially northern temperate, tropical mountains; many ornamental (Adonis, Aquilegia, Clematis, Consolida, Delphinium, Helleborus, Nigella). Toxicity: some highly TOXIC (Aconitum, Actaea, Delphinium, Ranunculus). Note: Taxa of Isopyrum in TJM (1993) moved to Enemion; Kumlienia moved to Ranunculus. eFlora Treatment Author: Margriet Wetherwax & Dieter H. Wilken, family description, key to genera Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: MARSH MARIGOLD Habit: Perennial herb from short caudex [long, slender stolons], generally fleshy, glabrous. Stem: 1--few. Leaf: simple, oblong-ovate to spheric-reniform or cordate, crenate to dentate [entire]; basal petioles > blades. Inflorescence: cyme or flowers 1, terminal or axillary, bracts leaf-like. Flower: sepals 5--12, petal-like, white to yellow; petals 0; pistils 5--many, ovules. Fruit: follicle, sessile to short-stalked, generally beaked. Seed: brown, wrinkled. Etymology: (Greek: ancient name, from bowl-shaped flower) eFlora Treatment Author: Bruce A. Ford
Caltha leptosepala DC.
NATIVE Habit: Plant 8--48 cm. Leaf: petiole 3--25 cm, < to > blade; blade 2--9 cm wide, +- crenate. Inflorescence: peduncle generally > leaves, 1--4-flowered. Flower: sepals 5--11, oblong to elliptic. Fruit: 4--15, 7--18 mm; beak straight or +- curved. Ecology: Marshes, pond margins, streambanks, conifer forest; Elevation: 900--3300 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, CaR, SNH, MP; Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, Montana, New Mexico. Flowering Time: May--Jul Synonyms: Caltha leptosepala subsp. howellii (Huth) P.G. Smit; Caltha leptosepala var. biflora (DC.) G. Lawson Jepson eFlora Author: Bruce A. Ford Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Caltha Next taxon: Caltha palustris
Botanical illustration including Caltha leptosepala
Citation for this treatment: Bruce A. Ford 2012, Caltha leptosepala, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=16797, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
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