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Ranunculus californicus, commonly known as the California buttercup, [ 1] is a flowering plant of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is a native of California, where it is common in many habitats, including chaparral and woodlands . Its distribution extends across many habitats of California, north into Oregon and south into Baja California ...
Myosurus L. Ranunculus / ræˈnʌŋkjʊləs / [ 3] is a large genus of about 1700 to more than 1800 species [ 1][ 2] of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots . The genus is distributed worldwide, primarily in temperate and montane regions. [ 2]
Description. Ranunculus sceleratus is an annual herb growing up to half a meter tall. The leaves are more or less glabrous (hairless) and have small blades each deeply lobed or divided into three leaflets. They are borne on long petioles. The flowers are 5-10mm across with five or fewer yellow petals a few millimeters long and reflexed sepals.
The Flower Fields is a flower garden in Carlsbad Ranch in Carlsbad, California.It is open to visitors between March 1 and Mother's Day. [1]The Flower Fields' attractions include its "Tecolote Giant Ranunculus", a greenhouse filled with cymbidium orchids, a 300-by-170-foot American flag made out of red, white, and blue petunias, [2] as well as the Field's "sweet pea maze."
Genus: Ranunculus. Species: R. uncinatus. Binomial name. Ranunculus uncinatus. D.Don ex G.Don. Ranunculus uncinatus is a species of buttercup known by the common names woodland buttercup [1] and little buttercup. It is native to western North America from Alaska to California to New Mexico, where it grows in wet, wooded habitat such as forest ...
The leaves are dark blueish-green on the upper surface and paler below, 2.5-3.5 cm across, with 3-5 shallow lobes that are broadest at the base. The flowers are solitary on 1-2 cm long pedicels which arise opposite a leaf. They have 5 narrow petals about 3 mm long, which are white with a yellow base and a crescent-shaped (lunate) nectar pit.
Ranunculaceae. Genus: Ranunculus. Species: R. repens. Binomial name. Ranunculus repens. L. Ranunculus repens, the creeping buttercup, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe, Asia and northwestern Africa. [ 2][ 3] It is also called creeping crowfoot and (along with restharrow) sitfast.
The light green ovals denote nectaries. 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.