Kumlienia

Taxobox
name = "Kumlienia"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Kumlienia hystricula"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ranunculales
familia = Ranunculaceae
genus = "Kumlienia"
genus_authority = Greene
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Kumlienia cooleyae" "Kumlienia hystricula"

"Kumlienia" is a small genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family known generally as false buttercups. There are two species in this genus, both of which were formerly included in "Ranunculus". "Kumlienia cooleyae" is native to the northwestern Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to Washington. "Kumlienia hystricula" is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California. These perennial herbs produce a basal rosette of leaves on a caudex and erect inflorescences of a few yellow or white buttercup flowers.

The genus is named for the Swedish-American naturalist Thure Kumlien.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?6434,6520 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=KUMLI USDA Plants Profile]