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Ranunculaceae. Buttercup Family. 
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Herbs with alternate and basal leaves (opposite in Clematis). = 228 
Flowers various, perfect, commonly in racemes or panicles, less often .. - 
solitary or axillary. Sepals 5, commonly petal-like, distinct. Petals. 
4 or 5 to several, or wanting. Stamens, numerous, indefinite. Pistils 
several or numerous, more or less indefinite, superior, l-chambered. _ 
Fruit a cluster of follicles or achenes, rarely a berry. 
O Submerged aquatics 
O Terrestrial plants 
Lj) 2 Leaves opposite; flowers and fruits showy; achenes 
_ Gwith plumose tails ec. 
2 Leaves in a whorl of three subtending the usually 
solitary flower, basal leaves present or none; 
aekenss pubescent or with a plumose tail 
2 Leaves alternate or basal, none whorled ? : tees : wees: 
4 Fruit a berry; flowers small and white in a eek eS . a 4 
6 terminal spicate raceme; pistil 1 ene ae ia Aeteoa q 
Fruit a cluster of follicles (with several 
seeds} or achenes (with 1 seed); flowers 
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pxcept Aquilegig) blue or white; pistils 
several 
6 Fruit a cluster of follicles; ovaries 4-8 
LJ ® Perianth regular, neither spurred nor hooded; 
5: A leaves basal, or +> two on the stem 
/O Leaves all basal 
(A, Flowers (and fruit clusters) 3, in 
4 an umbel SX Coptis 
|2 Flowers (and fruit clusters) 
/@ solitary & Caltha : 
/D Stem leaves 2; flower solitary 4. Brollius 
& fPerianth either hooded or spurred, showy; 
leaves basal and cauline, the cauline ' 
/2< usually more than two, or if two, all : 
trifoliolate 
/O Petals 5, each one prolonged below 
/ into a conspicuous spur; flowers 
si etre or red 8 Aquilegia 
/O Petals & or 4, inconspicuous; sepals 
als showy, one either spurred or 
' “forming a hood; flowers blue 
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/ 2, Upper sepal prolonged into a 
1; / downward spur; petals 4, 
»1N two pairs 9, Delrhinium 
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