Ranunculus illyricus

Ranunculus illyricus

Ssp illyricus: Gümüş düğünçiçeği; Ssp tenorii: İnce düğünçiçeği
Subsericeous perennial, 20-40 cm. Root tubers oblong, fusiform. Stems slender, 1-5-flowered. Radical leaves trisect, segments linear or linear-lanceolate, 3-8 cm, entire or tripartite, rarely simply pinnatisect with shorter lanceolate segments. Sepals strongly reflexed. Petals 9-15 mm. Fruiting head oblong, 7-10 mm x 5-6 mm. Achenes orbicular, flat, 2 mm, punctulate, narrowly winged, attenuated into an ascending, straight, 1 mm beak. Two subspecies are provisionally recognised:
1. Radical leaves trisect with linear or linear-lanceolate segments, 3-8 cm subsp. illyricus 
1. Radical leaves pinnatisect with lanceolate, shorter segments subsp. tenorii