The Botany of Iceland - 01.12.1942, Blaðsíða 240
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JOHS. GRONTVED
Life-form: H.
In the hills, on the banks of brooks, in small mossy depressions, in snow-patches in
company with Salix herbacea.
Flor. VI—VII ; fr. mat. VII.
Max. height: 16 cm ; average: 5 cm.
Geogr. area: Am. : Ellesmere Land, Baffin Land, Labrador to Alaska, southward to
Wyoming.-—Greenl. : W. 60°—79°. E. 60°-—77°40'.—Eur.: Northern Scandinavia
and Russia, Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Novaya Zemlya, central Alps and western
Karpathians.—Asia: Siberia, along the north coast to Kamchatka and Honshu.
Fig. 92. Ranunculus pygmaeus Wg.
212. Ranuncultis repens Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 554.
K. & M., 1770, p. 208.—Babington, 1871, p. 292,—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 52.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 96.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 107.—
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 68.
Flora Dan. tab. 795.
Icelandic: Skriðsóley. Danish : Vandgrenet Ranunkel. English : Creeping Buttercup.
In Iccland R. reþens is only exceptionally found outside the cultivated areas,
or in the environment of inhabited places. It seems to be rather frequent in most
parts of the inhabited land.
Life-form: H.
On wet soil, in home-fields and gardens, in cultivated soil, on drains from houses,
at hot springs.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. VII—IX.
Max. length of shoots: 60 cm ; average: 18 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: (mainly adventive from Eur.) N. Am, southward to Washington,
Utah, Virginia.—Greenl.: W. (introduccd: Ivigtút, Julianehaab).—Eur.: Fær. ;