Ranunculus sarmentosus Adams, Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 3: 244. 1834; Halerpestes salsuginosa E. L. Greene; R. cymbalaria Pursh subsp. sarmentosus (Adams) Kitagawa; R. salsuginosus Pallas (1776), not Georgi (1775).

Leaf blade oblate, reniform, or orbicular-ovate, base broadly cuneate, truncate or subcordate, margin undivided, 3--9-dentate distally, or 3-lobed, central lobe entire, lateral lobes 1- or 2-denate or entire. Fl. May--Aug, fr. Jun--Aug.

Saline damp sandy places by rivers or lakes, meadows, slopes; near sea level--2000 m. Gansu, N and W Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, N Shaanxi, Shanxi, NW Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang [Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, N Pakistan, Russia (Siberia), Sikkim].