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Ranunculus is a genus of about 1,700 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae. [1] ... Rock buttercup [19] Small-flowered crowfoot [20] United States;
Ranunculus micranthus is a flowering plant species in the Ranunculus (buttercup) genus known by the common names rock buttercup [1] and small-flowered crowfoot. [2] It is native to North America, with a distribution that covers much of the eastern United States. [1] R. micranthus is very similar in appearance to R. abortivus (small-flowered ...
Ranunculus / r æ ˈ n ʌ ŋ k j ʊ l ə s / [3] is a large genus of about 1750 species [1] [2] of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots.
Ranunculaceae (/ r ə n ʌ ŋ k j uː ˈ l eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, [2] distributed worldwide. The largest genera are Ranunculus (600 species), Delphinium (365), Thalictrum (330 ...
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots.
Ranunculus adoneus, the alpine buttercup [2] or snow buttercup, is a species of flowering plant. It is an alpine buttercup from the family Ranunculaceae. This species is mainly found in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming but can also be found in Idaho, northern Utah and eastern Nevada. Its typical habitat is short grass meadows near ...
Anemone hortensis, commonly called broad-leaved anemone, is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant with an underground rhizome, in buttercup family Ranunculaceae.The genus name comes from the Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, meaning "wind"), as an ancient legend tells that the flowers open only when the wind blows.
Delphinium tricorne, known by the common names dwarf larkspur [1] or spring larkspur, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family. It is native to the central and eastern United States, where it is the most common Delphinium found.