Family ³

Ranunculaceae

Description ⁴

Climbing vine with 3-foliolate compound leaves; leaflets ovate, margins usually toothed; surfaces glabrous or sparsely silky. Inflorescences axillary, flowers solitary, rarely 3-flowered cymes. Flowers unisexual; pedicel (including peduncle) stout, 3.5-11 cm; sepals wide-spreading, not recurved, white to cream, ovate or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 10-21 mm, abaxially and adaxially pilose; stamens 50-100; filaments glabrous; staminodes absent or 50-100; pistils 75-100. Achenes asymmetric-ovate, not broadly orbiculate, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm, not conspicuously rimmed, glabrous; beak 3.5-5.5 cmF

Community ³

Foothill Woodland, Chaparral

Flowering ³

Mar- Jun

Ethnobotany ³

"• Miwok Drug (Burn Dressing, Dermatological Aid)
Pulverized plant charcoal dusted onto burns.
Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford 1933 Miwok Material Culture. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11 (p. 168)
• Shasta Drug (Cold Remedy) Holt, Catharine 1946 Shasta Ethnography. Anthropological Records 3(4):308 (p. 340)

Garden Location ³

F

Associated species ³

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/18024068@N00/434571811
2. (c) gillian360, all rights reserved, uploaded by gillian360
3. (c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
4. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5007256

More Info

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