Ranunculus gracilisE.D. Clarke - Narin Yağçiçeği (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Perennial, softly hirsute, 5−20 cm. Root tubers broadly ovate, 3−5 mm. Stems 1−3-flowered. Radical leaves often heteromorphic, outer ones trilobed or tripartite with cuneate-spreading segments divided into obtuse, ovate or oblong lobes; inner basal leaves trisect or subpinnatisect into linear laciniae, or with nearly all the radical leaves of this form. Segments strongly reflexed. Petals 6−10 mm. Fruiting head ovate, 6−8 × 4−5 mm. Achenes ovate-oblong, wingless, compressed, smooth, c. 1.5 mm, contracted into an upturned 0.5−1.0 mm beak.
Flowering time: April.
Habitat: Hillsides, woods, fallow fields, nr. s.l.−1400 m.
Reference:
Davis PH (1965). Ranunculus gracilis Clarke, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 180.
Public Description:
Ranunculus gracilis, commonly known as “narin yağçiçeği” (in Turkish), is native to Türkiye, Italy and the Balkans. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with yellow flower, which usually grows up to 20 cm.
Its blooming is in April and generally found in hillsides, woods, fallow fields.
Reference:
Davis PH (1965). Ranunculus gracilis Clarke, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 180.