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Ranunculus acris is a herbaceous perennial plant that grows to a height of 30 to 100 cm, with ungrooved flowing stems bearing glossy yellow flowers about 25 mm across. There are five overlapping petals borne above five green sepals held upwards against the petals, that turn yellow as the flower matures.
English: floral diagram of Ranunculus acris; after EICHLER, August Wilhelm, 1878. Blüthendiagramme, zweiter Theil: Enthaltend die apetalen und choripetalen Dicotylen [online].
The familiar and widespread buttercup of gardens throughout Northern Europe (and introduced elsewhere) is the creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens, which has extremely tough and tenacious roots. Two other species are also widespread, the bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus and the much taller meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris.
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.
Ranunculus is a genus of about 1,700 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae. [1] Members of the genus include the buttercups , spearworts and water crowfoots . Contents
Ranunculus acris: Creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens: Bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus: Hairy buttercup Ranunculus sardous: St Martin's buttercup Ranunculus marginatus * Rough-fruited buttercup Ranunculus muricatus * Small-flowered buttercup Ranunculus parviflorus: Corn buttercup Ranunculus arvensis: Jersey buttercup Ranunculus paludosus ...
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The native range of Ranunculus bulbosus is Western Europe between about 60°N and the Northern Mediterranean coast. It grows in both the eastern and western parts of North America as an introduced weed. [4] Bulbous buttercup grows in lawns, pastures and fields in general, preferring nutrient-poor, well-drained soils.