Names:
Ranunculus glacialis.
English: Reindeer flower; Glacier crowfoot; Glacier buttercup; Carlina; Cacline.
Region: southern Europe, Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Sierra Nevada; Scandinavia, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Jan Mayen, Svalbard and eastern Greenland.
Habitat: arctic, alpine species, in the high mountains.
Botany: the highest-ascending plant in the Alps, flowering at over 4000 m.