Ranunculus ficaria L.

RANUNCULACEAE

- Buttercup family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Ranunculus ficaria L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 550 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Fig buttercup

English name: lesser celandine

English name: pilewort

French name: renoncule ficaire

Italian name: Ranuncolo favagello

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Ranunculus ficaria L. ssp. bulbifera (Marsden-Jones) Lawalree
2) Ranunculus ficaria L. var. bulbifera Marsden-Jones

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Magnoliidae
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Ranunculus
Species:

Page counter: 1722 ( AVG: 221.13 / 219.791 )

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - prati nei pressi di Leonforte., EN, Sicilia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Firenze, Giardino dei Semplici., FI, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 117.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, DC, DE, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, VA, WA, WI, WV), CAN (BC, NF, ON, QC)

Distributional map for Ranunculus ficaria L.
Map for Ranunculus ficaria L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Ranunculus ficaria L. var. bulbifera Marsden-Jones [648]
2) Ranunculus flabellaris Raf. [459]
3) Ranunculus flammula L. [453]
4) Ranunculus flammula L. var. flammula [261]
5) Ranunculus glaberrimus Hook. [301]
6) Ranunculus glaberrimus Hook. var. reconditus L.D. Benson [159]
7) Ranunculus gmelinii DC. ssp. purshii (Richardson) Hultén [167]
8) Ranunculus hederaceus L. [765]
9) Ranunculus hyperboreus Rottb. [258]
10) Ranunculus micranthus Nutt. [305]

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