Paul has sent me images of Ranunculus flammula subsp. minimus from the Outer Isles:
Ranunculus flammula minimus Photo P. Smith
This is not what I saw on Fladaigh Chuain, but it is worth looking our for on exposed clifftops. Note the shape of the basal leaves.
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Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles 
June 17, 2022 at 10:54 pm |
ssp minimus has broad leaves, with some as wide as long, with an ingressed base, your picture looks to me very different – I imagine instead one of the varieties of ssp flammula.
There’s a picture supposedly of ssp minima on this link, it certainly fits the brief descriptions in the floras I have – https://www.watergardenplants.co.uk/products/ranunculus-flammula-subsp-minimus
June 18, 2022 at 8:27 am |
Well, I don’t know. Not a plant I have ever knowingly seen. I will mention t to Paul.
June 18, 2022 at 8:36 am
I’ll see what taxon R. Lansdown thinks it is, as he’s very much the expert on aquatics, and will let you know.
June 18, 2022 at 8:39 am |
Richard and I have worked together quite a bit over the years.
June 18, 2022 at 1:48 pm |
Paul says: “Original image was from 2006, this one was confirmed by the referee, Richard Gornall. I believe he said that the leaves were somewhat less rounded than typically, but from >1 image he was happy with it.”
June 18, 2022 at 1:51 pm |
Feedback from Richard on the photo is “it is not R. minimus and is actually closer to var. scoticus” – scoticus did cross my mind though the lower leaves appeared rather present there (comparable to the other leaves), but they do perhaps have the scoticus quality of expiring early, bearing in mind their habitat challenges in the photo.