90 Ranunculaceae 



smooth or slightly hairy; calyx lobes linear- 

 oblong, 1-3 ribbed, glandular, hairy, | of an 

 inch long; petals white, broad, equalling or 

 exceeding the sepals. 



On high alpine slopes and summits, 

 throughout the Rockies; flowering in June 

 and July. 



RANUNCULACE.E 



Crowfoot Family 



Herbs or rarely climbing shrubs with 

 acrid sap; leaves usually alternate without 

 stipules; flowers usually showy, blue, white, 

 yellow, or scarlet; sepals 3-15, generally soon 

 falling away, often petal-like; petals about 

 the same number or occasionally wanting; 

 stamens many; carpels many or rarely 

 solitary. 



Carpels with solitary ovules; fruit an achene. 



Sepals valvate in the bud; leaves opposite. Atragene. 

 Sepals folded on each other in the bud; leaves not 

 opposite. 



