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Allegheny Mountain buttercup (Ranunculus allegheniensis Britton)

Also known as Allegheny crowfoot.

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Allegheny Mountain buttercup
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.

Summary

A perennial of woodlands to partly wooded areas, mostly limited to the Appalachians and mountainous areas of the northeast, usually on sites with calcium-rich bedrock.

Range - Expand

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Native
Native or Not Present

This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.

Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.

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Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.
Photo © Daniel McClosky, CC BY 4.0.