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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 ...
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."
Laccopetalum Ulbr. 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]
Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria L. ), commonly known as lesser celandine or pilewort, [ 3] is a low-growing, hairless perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It has fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves and distinctive flowers with bright yellow, glossy petals. [ 4][ 5] Native to Europe and Western Asia, it ...
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.
Ranunculus sceleratus known by the common names celery-leaved buttercup, [2] celery-leaf buttercup, [3] and cursed buttercup [4] is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It has a circumpolar distribution in the northern hemisphere, native to temperate and boreal North America and Eurasia , where it grows in wet and ...
Ranunculus eschscholtzii is a species of buttercup flower known by the common name Eschscholtz's buttercup. [1] [2] The species name honors Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz , an Imperial Russian botanist and entomologist active on the West Coast in the 1820s and 1830s.
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey. Researchers have deciphered parts of ...