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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."
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]
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. White-tailed kite, Elanus leucurus; Swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus (*)
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 ...
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 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.
Ficaria is a small genus of several species of plants in the family Ranunculaceae, which were previously grouped with Ranunculus. [1] The genus includes Ficaria verna, known as fig buttercup or lesser celandine, and related species. The name " Ficaria " is Classical Latin for fig. [2] Plants in the genus are closely related to true buttercups ...