Ranunculus acris L.
  • Sp. Pl. : 554 (1753)
  • Meadow buttercup


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Ranunculus acris L. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000461396. Accessed on: 24 Mar 2023'

General Information

Stems erect from short caudex or rhizome, never rooting nodally, hispid, strigose, or glabrous, base not bulbous. Roots never tuberous. Basal leaf blades pentagonal in outline, deeply 3-5-parted, 1.8-5.2 × 2.7-9.8 cm, segments 1-2×-lobed or -parted, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, margins toothed or lobulate, apex acute to rounded. Flowers: receptacle glabrous; sepals spreading, 4-6(-9) × 2-5 mm, hispid; petals 5, yellow, 8-11(-17) × 7-13 mm. Heads of achenes globose, 5-7(-10) mm wide; achenes 2-3 × 1.8-2.4 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, deltate, usually with tip short or long, straight or curved, subulate, 0.2-1 mm. 2 n = 14.

  • Provided by: [A].Flora of North America @ efloras.org
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    Spreading-hairy perennial, slender, eventually to 1 m, leafy mostly below the middle, the long branches with few, widely separated, much reduced lvs; lvs reniform, deeply 3-cleft, the broadly cuneate-obovate segments incised or cleft into oblong or linear lobes; pet broadly obovate, often retuse, 8–16 mm, twice as long as the sep; achenes in a subglobose head, flat, margined, broadly and obliquely obovate, 2–3 mm, the beak 0.4–1 mm; 2n=14, 28, 29, 32. Native of Europe, widely introduced in N. Amer. as a weed in fields and meadows and along roadsides. May–Sept. Double-flowered forms occur.

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    Morphology

    30–100 cm hoch, reich verzweigt, anliegend behaart bis kahl. Blütenstiele rund. Kelchblätter den Kronblättern anliegend. Blüten gelb, Durchmesser 2–3 cm. Blütenboden kahl.

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    Distribution Map

     
    • Native distribution
    Found in
    • Europe Northern Europe Ireland

    Synonyms

    Nationally Preferred Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    Meadow buttercupEnglishIE
    Fearbán feírIrishIE

    Other Local Names

    NameLanguageCountry
    Ranunchel asperRaeto-RomanceCH
    Ranuncolo comuneItalianCH
    FarrabunEnglishIE
    Renoncule âcreFrenchCH
    Cam an imeIrishIE
    Fearbán feoirIrishIE
    Renoncule âcre, bouton d'or
    Cearbán feóirIrishIE
    Scharfer HahnenfussGermanCH
    Meadow crowfootEnglishIE

      Bibliography

     Information From

    Flora of North America @ efloras.org
    http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1
    'Flora of North America @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=1 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
    • A Flora of North America Association
    Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der Schweiz
    http://www.flora-helvetica.ch
    Flora Helvetica – Illustrierte Flora der Schweiz, Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner, Andreas Gygax. Haupt Verlag 2018.
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    Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern US and Canada
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    Irish Vernacular Names
    https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/research-staff/article/380/wyse-jackson-peter-s.aspx
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    Ranunculaceae
    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/Ranunculaceae
    World Flora Online Data. 2021.
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    World Flora Online Consortium
    http://www.worldfloraonline.org/organisation/WFO
    World Flora Online Data. 2017.
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