ID suggestions please

[JennyS]

Any suggestions as to the identity of the white flowered on the left much appreciated!

[earthdragon64]

Looks like one of the Crowfoot family, but you'll need someone with more knowledge than me to get a species.

Regards, Audrey.

[Dorts]

Hi jenny
It would be extremely brave of someone to give an ID from your photo.
What we can say is that it is a Water Crowfoot, Rannunculus sp., a member of the Buttercup Family. There are more than a dozen kinds with many, many more hybrids.
Yours appear to have what are called 'submerged leaves' only, which may help with an ID. I notice you are in Ireland. A number of species are absent or very local there. A local expert would would be useful.
Dorts.

[JennyS]

Hi Dort

It would be extremely brave of someone to give an ID from your photo.

I totally agree, someone sent me the photo for identification and I only got as far as Water Crowfoot, Ranunculus sp. too.
Posted it here in the hope that someone more knowledgeable than I am with the various Crowfoots might be able to suggest a closer ID.

Thanks both of you for confirming that 'Water Crowfoot, Ranunculus sp.' is as close an ID as is possible from the photo.

Jenny

[AlanS]

Hi Jenny,

I'll be that brave soul.

This looks like good Ranunculus trichophyllus to me.

Even though it is stranded on mud it is showing no sign of developing floating/terrestrial leaves, which pretty much rules out R. aquatilis and hybrids, and the petals look right for trichophyllus. It doesn't have enough achenes for baudotii (which should also have some terrestrial leaves), petals are the wrong shape for penicillatus, so, by elimination - trichophyllus.

I note that the site must be brackish (so I did think more about baudotii), but the impression is that it is in a similar habitat to where rather rigid-leaved states of R. trichophyllus grow in the shallow coastal lochans in the Hebrides.

Alan

[Dorts]

Originally Posted by AlanS

Hi Jenny,

I'll be that brave soul.

This looks like good Ranunculus trichophyllus to me.

Even though it is stranded on mud it is showing no sign of developing floating/terrestrial leaves, which pretty much rules out R. aquatilis and hybrids, and the petals look right for trichophyllus. It doesn't have enough achenes for baudotii (which should also have some terrestrial leaves), petals are the wrong shape for penicillatus, so, by elimination - trichophyllus.

I note that the site must be brackish (so I did think more about baudotii), but the impression is that it is in a similar habitat to where rather rigid-leaved states of R. trichophyllus grow in the shallow coastal lochans in the Hebrides.

Alan

Well done Alan for being so brave.
I looked closely at Ranunculus trichophyllus, but wasn't brave enough!
Dorts.

[JennyS]

Thank you Alan, I'd given up on a closer ID for this one!