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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 ...
Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold [1] and kingcup, is a small to medium sized perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Like most buttercups, Ranunculus repens is poisonous, although these poisons are lost when dried with hay. The taste of buttercups is acrid, so cattle avoid eating them. The plants then take advantage of the cropped ground around them to spread their stolons. Creeping buttercup also is spread through the transportation of hay.
Ranunculus fluitans (the river water-crowfoot, [3]) is a species of buttercup. It is a perennial water plant, which when in favourable conditions (such as fast flowing water, [ 4 ] ) can grow up to 6 m (20 ft) height.
The plant's genus name comes from a Latin term rana, which means "frog", referring to the buttercup's typical moist and shaded habitats.On the other hand, species' name lanuginosus derives from a Latin word lanugo, which is translated as "downy" and refers to the plant's stem, covered with a layer of fine hair.
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Members of the genus include the buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. Selected species. A. Species & synonyms Common names Native range Illustration ...
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