- Ranunculus glacialis
Taxobox | name = "Ranunculus glacialis"
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regnum =Plantae
divisio =Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Ranunculales
familia =Ranunculaceae
genus = "Ranunculus "
species = "R. glacialis"
binomial = "Ranunculus glacialis"
binomial_authority = L."Ranunculus glacialis", the glacier crowfoot or glacier buttercup, is a plant of the family
Ranunculaceae . It is anarctic-alpine species, found in the high mountains of southernEurope (Alps ,Pyrenees , Carpathians, Sierra Nevada) as well as on theScandinavia n peninsula,Iceland , theFaroe Islands ,Jan Mayen ,Svalbard and easternGreenland . It is by many accounts the highest ascending plant in theAlps , flowering at over 4,000 m. A secondsubspecies , subsp. "chamissonis", is found on either side of theBering Strait .
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