Ranunculus altaicus Laxm. - a beautiful species with large flowers growing on damp habitats at the snow line in the mountains of Central Asia and Siberia.

Boggy chionophylic meadowy tundra in the cirque of the left headwater of the Chikty Rivulet, 2600 m above sea level, the southern principal slope of the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 10th July 1998. O. Kosterin.