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Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots.
Ranunculaceae (/ r ə n ʌ ŋ k j uː ˈ l eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, [2] distributed worldwide. The largest genera are Ranunculus (600 species), Delphinium (365), Thalictrum (330 ...
Ranunculus is a genus of about 1,700 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae. [1] ... Little-leaf buttercup; Small-flower crowfoot; Kidney-leaf buttercup;
The common name buttercup may derive from a false belief that the plants give butter its characteristic yellow hue [citation needed] (in fact it is poisonous to cows and other livestock). A popular children's game involves holding a buttercup up to the chin; a yellow reflection is supposed to indicate a fondness for butter. [14]
Ranunculus hispidus is a species of perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It is commonly known as bristly buttercup [2] or hispid buttercup. [3] It is a small plant native to central and eastern North America that grows to a height up to 30 cm (1 ft) and has 5-petaled yellow flowers.
Clematis terniflora (sweet autumn clematis, sweet autumn virginsbower) is a plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It is native to northeastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Siberia and Taiwan). [1] It was introduced into the United States in the late 1800s as an ornamental garden plant, and has naturalized in many of the eastern ...
Ranunculus fascicularis, commonly called early buttercup, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). It is native to the eastern North America , where it is found in Canada and the United States . [ 2 ]
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 ...