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Ranunculus acris is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, and is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia. Common names include meadow buttercup , [ 1 ] tall buttercup , [ 2 ] common buttercup and giant buttercup .
Species & synonyms Common names Native range Illustration Ranunculus californicus Benth.: California buttercup; California; Ranunculus canus Benth.: Sacramento Valley buttercup
Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. The genus is distributed worldwide, primarily in temperate and montane regions. [ 2 ] The familiar and widespread buttercup of gardens throughout Northern Europe (and introduced elsewhere) is the creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens , which has extremely tough and ...
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 ...
Thalictrum (/ θ ə ˈ l ɪ k t r ə m /) is a genus of 120-200 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native mostly to temperate regions. [1] Meadow-rue is a common name for plants in this genus.
Thalictrum fendleri is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Fendler's meadow-rue. [2] It is named in honor of Augustus Fendler. [3]The plant is native to western North America, including much of the western United States and northern Mexico.
Thalictrum dasycarpum, known as tall meadow rue [2] and purple meadow-rue, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It is native to North America. It is native to North America.
Thalictrum alpinum is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common names alpine meadow-rue [1] [2] and arctic meadow-rue.It is native to Arctic and alpine regions of North America and Eurasia, including Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland, and it occurs in cold, wet, boggy habitats in high mountains farther south.