Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > Ranunculus peltatusRanunculus peltatus (pond water-crowfoot)Synonyms: Batrachium cesatianum; Batrachium confusum; Ranunculus aquatilis sphaerospermus; Ranunculus aquatilis var. peltatus; Ranunculus aquatilis var. renifolius; Ranunculus circinnatus var. rodii; Ranunculus confusus (homotypic); Ranunculus dichotomum; Ranunculus floribundum; Ranunculus heterophyllus; Ranunculus marinus; Ranunculus peltatum; Ranunculus rhipiphyllus; Ranunculus rodii var. illudens; Ranunculus spaerospermus; Ranunculus sphaerospermus var. rodii; Ranunculus trichophyllus petiveri Ranunculus peltatus (Pond Water-crowfoot) is a plant species in the genus Ranunculus, native to Europe, southwestern Asia and northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual or perennial plant generally found in slow streams, ponds, or lakes. It has two different leaf types, broad rounded floating leaves 3–5 cm in diameter with three to seven shallow lobes, and finely divided thread-like submerged leaves. The flowers are white with a yellow centre, 15–20 mm in diameter, with five petals. |
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Atlantic Northwest Africa |
Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Barents Sea Drainages |
Finland, Norway, Russia, Svalbard |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Cantabric Coast - Languedoc |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Eastern Iberia |
Andorra, France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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Southern Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Western Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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