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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 ...
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 .
Like buttercups elsewhere, it is a perennial herb with yellow flowers appearing in spring and summer. James Edward Smith described it in 1815, and it still bears its original name. [1] It is a member of the large cosmopolitan genus Ranunculus, known as buttercups. The species name is Latin "with burrs". [3]
Ranunculus flabellaris is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup genus, Ranunculus, known by the common name yellow water buttercup or the yellow water crowfoot. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is native to much of North America , including the southern half of Canada and most of the United States .
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.
Members of the genus include the buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. Selected species. A. Species & synonyms Common names Native range Illustration ...
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.
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.