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The Plant List (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden) - Species in Ranunculus USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, PLANTS Database search with keyword = ranunculus USDA Germplam Resources Information Network (GRIN) Species Records of Ranunculus
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 ...
Buttercups usually flower in the spring, but flowers may be found throughout the summer, especially where the plants are growing as opportunistic colonizers, as in the case of garden weeds. The water crowfoots ( Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium ), which grow in still or running water, are sometimes treated in a separate genus Batrachium (from ...
Dendrobium anosmum the unscented dendrobium Dendrobium amabile Dendrobium aphyllum the hooded orchid Dendrobium aberrans Schltr. Dendrobium acaciifolium J.J.Sm. Dendrobium acanthophippiiflorum J.J.Sm. Dendrobium acerosum Lindl. Dendrobium aciculare Lindl. Dendrobium acinaciforme Roxb. Dendrobium aclinia Rchb.f. Dendrobium acuiferum Ormerod Dendrobium acuminatissimum (Blume) Lindl. Dendrobium ...
The name religiosum derives from the fact that the flowers are used as temple offerings. It is also known as silk-cotton tree because the capsules containing the seeds have a fluffy cotton-like substance similar to kapok. [2] Another common name is buttercup tree because its yellow and bright flowers look like large-sized buttercups. [3]
It is a member of the large cosmopolitan genus Ranunculus, known as buttercups. The species name is Latin "with burrs". [3] Ranunculus lappaceus grows as a perennial herb which grows anywhere to 50 cm (20 in) high. The yellow five-petaled flowers are up to 4 cm (1.6 in) wide and appear in spring and summer. [2] The new growth is hairy. [3]
Ranunculus auricomus is a short and slightly hairy perennial herb with bright yellow flowers. [3] [4] It can reach a height between 30–50 centimetres (20 in), and have as many as 10 palmately-lobed basal leaves. Its upper stem leaves are deeply divided into 3-5 narrow segments giving the plant a filiform appearance.
Ranunculus lanuginosus is an entomophilous species [2] that flowers between May and August. [5] This buttercup has yellow to orange flowers with darker middle area and five floral leaves in both corolla and calyx. [4] Each flower measures from 2 to 2.5 centimetres. [5] Calyx has hairy sepals.