Participant Info

Species

Ranunculus flammula [Ranunculus reptans]

Family

Ranunculaceae

CommonName

creeping buttercup, banewort

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1939

LatestDate

2014

Ecosystem

montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans

Counties

Conejos, Hinsdale, Mineral

Passes

Slumgullion

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Mineral Co, Hunters Lake 8 Aug 2014

Comments

When found in the Watershed, which is not often, creeping buttercup is always by lake, pond, or stream shores, usually growing in mud. There are no records from east or north of the Rio Grande in the Valley. Allred et al. (2020) show the flower also distributed on the west side of the Rio Grande drainage in New Mexico, down to Socorro Co (but no farther down the Rio Grande drainage). In the USA, this circumboreal toxic flower can be found all states west of the Great Plains and around the Great Lakes and New England.

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