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This species is accepted, and its native range is E. Greenland to Subarctic and Subalpine Eurasia.
A specimen from Kew's Herbarium

Native to:

Alaska, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Magadan, North European Russi, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland

Ranunculus glacialis L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Turczaninow, P.K.N.S. [s.n.] K000692672
Przewalski, N.M. [s.n.], Tibet K000692674
Bunge, A.A. [s.n.] K000692673

First published in Sp. Pl.: 553 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
  • Jonsell, B. (ed.) (2001). Flora Nordica 2: 1-430. The Bergius Foundaton.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Halliday, G. (2019). A flora of the East Greenland central fjord region 70°N-77°N: 1-281. Trollius Publications.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1993). Flora Europaea ed. 2, 1: 1-581. Cambridge University Press.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0