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Buttercup Family. Buttercup Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Gallery:- |
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Adder's-tongue Spearwort |
Ranunculus ophioglossifolius |
An annual found in a highly specialised marshy habitat. It requires winter inundation, bare, wet mud for seedling establishment, reduced summer water levels and low competition. The substrate at the two extant sites is base-rich Lias clay, with most water input from rain. Lowland. |
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A small, rhizomatous perennial of mountain habitats. It is found on damp rock ledges, at the open edges of stony streams and flushes and in thin grassland. It is a good indicator of substrates which are at least slightly base-rich. From sea level in North Scotland, but generally above 300 m and reaching 1190 m on Ben Lawers (Mid Perth). |
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Flower 23 June |
Single Leaf 23 June |
Foliage 23 June |
Form 23 June |
Baneberry |
A perennial herb of shaded sites on limestone. Its habitats differ superficially, being found in the grikes of limestone pavement, on rock ledges, and in deciduous woodland, but all have the same characteristics of shade, low competition and a cool, protected root run. 0-450 m (Hawkswick Clowder, Mid-W. Yorks.). |
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Blue Anemone |
A rhizomatous perennial, found in woodland, open scrub, under park trees, in churchyards and near former habitations. Like the native A. nemorosa, it requires light shade. Lowland. |
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A perennial herb with a corm-like stem-base, found on well-drained, neutral or calcareous soils in meadows, pastures and dunes. It is absent from highly productive, fertile grassland and from strongly acidic soils. Generally lowland, but reaching 580 m on Dartmoor (S. Devon) and at Hartside (Westmorland). |
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Flower 24 April |
Flowers October |
Foliage June |
Form June |
Most Poisonous member of genus Ranunculus. An annual of shallow water or wet, disturbed, nutrient-rich mud, especially at the edges of ponds, ditches, streams or rivers which are poached by drinking livestock. It is salt-tolerant and frequent on grazed estuarine marshes. Its seeds are long-lived and plants can re-appear following disturbance after many years of absence. Lowland. |
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Flower June |
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Native populations of this perennial are found on calcareous soil over limestone rocks in England and Wales. It typically grows in woodland glades and open scrub, by woodland rides and streamsides, in damp grassland and fen, and on scree slopes. Garden escapes can be naturalised in quarries, on roadsides, railway banks and old walls. 0-470 m (Sandbed Gill, Cumberland). |
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Flower 31 May in Kent |
Flowers 31 May in Kent |
Foliage 31 May in Kent |
Form 31 May in Kent |
Common Meadow-Rue |
A rhizomatous perennial of fens, ditches and streamsides, and tall vegetation in wet meadows, always found where the substrate or water is base-rich. It is also recorded from open fen carr. Lowland. |
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Corn Buttercup |
An annual of arable land on loams, sands, clays and chalk. The seeds are long-lived, and plants sometimes reappear on disturbed waste ground, or in gardens or new roadside verges on former arable land. Lowland. |
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A perennial herb with creeping stems, R. repens has a very wide ecological tolerance, but is most typical of disturbed habitats on damp or wet nutrient-rich soils, including woodland rides, ditch sides, farm gateways, gardens and waste ground. It also occurs in damp or periodically flooded grasslands, in dune-slacks and on lake shores. It is absent from very acidic soils. Generally lowland, but reaching 1035 m on Snowdon (Caerns.). |
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Flower May |
Flowers June |
Foliage July |
Form July |
Ranunculus reptans |
A stoloniferous perennial herb of lake shores, growing on gravel or silty sand. At the Loch of Strathbeg (N. Aberdeen), where it has been known since 1876, it grows in open vegetation in a zone of Eleocharis palustris which is intermittently exposed above the water level in summer. Lowland. |
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Flower 9 May. Photo by BritishFlora |
Flowers 9 May. Photo by BritishFlora |
Foliage 9 May. Photo by BritishFlora |
Form 9 May. Photo by BritishFlora |
French Meadow-Rue |
Thalictrum aquilegifolium |
A shortly rhizomatous perennial herb which occurs naturalised on roadsides and railway banks and also as a casual on tips. Lowland. |
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A perennial herb of cool, damp habitats, including hay meadows, stream and river banks, lake margins, open woodland and rock ledges. It prefers basic soils, and is often associated with limestone. It is sensitive to grazing, but can persist as small, non-flowering plants in the uplands. 0-1005 m (Stuic, S. Aberdeen). |
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Flower june |
Seed-head 26 June |
Foliage from Westmoreland in |
Form 18 May |
Goldilocks in the Buttercup Family and Wood Goldilocks |
A perennial, characteristic of deciduous woodland on chalk, limestone and other basic soils. It also grows in scrub, on roadsides and in churchyards, and rarely on open moorland sheltered by boulders and on montane ledges. It is apomictic, showing considerable variation throughout Europe, though the agamospecies have not yet been formally described in our area. Generally lowland, but reaching 1090 m on Aonach Beag (Westerness). |
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A stoloniferous perennial herb which grows in fens and marshes, on ditch, canal and pond edges, around reservoirs and in flooded gravel-pits and quarries. It is normally found in base-rich, still or slowly flowing water. Lowland. |
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Flower June |
Flowers June |
Foliage June |
Form June |
A perennial herb of rather shady habitats, usually on chalk or limestone, found in woodland glades, rocky dingles and old hedge banks. Populations are often small, but persist over many years without obvious changes in numbers. Lowland. |
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Flower 21 February |
Foliage from Chatham in Kent on 24 March |
Form from Stalisfield on 21 April |
Form 25 March |
Hairy Buttercup |
An annual of damp coastal pastures, poached pond edges and wet hollows, road verges, farm tracks and gateways. It is generally restricted to thin turf or disturbed areas on damp, neutral, moderately fertile soils. Lowland. |
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A small annual or short-lived perennial, found at the edge of small water bodies and by the sheltered backwaters of rivers. It often grows on the cattle-poached edges of ponds, ditches and streams, in wet gateways and on paths and tracks. It tolerates a broad range of pH and nutrient levels, including nitrophilous conditions. 0-770 m (Little Dun Fell, Westmorland). |
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Flower 17 June |
Foliage 17 June |
Leaf 17 June |
Form 17 June |
Ranunculus flabellatus |
A winter-green perennial herb which dies down to spindle-shaped tubers after flowering in May. It grows in grassland which is wet in winter, but sun-baked in summer. The number of flowering plants in a population may vary considerably from year to year. Lowland. |
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Flower June |
Flowers June |
Foliage June |
Form June |
Larkspur |
Delphinium orientale |
July onwards |
An annual species found on waste ground, rubbish tips and in cultivated fields. As an arable weed it usually occurs on dry soils in chalky or sandy areas. Lowland. |
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An aestivating perennial herb that grows in woods, hedge banks, meadows, roadsides, maritime grassland, the banks of rivers and streams and shaded waste ground. It prefers damp, loamy or clay soils, and avoids very dry, very acidic or permanently waterlogged sites. 0?750 m (Loch Lochy, Westerness), but probably higher elsewhere in Scotland. |
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Flower April |
Flowers 3 April |
Foliage from Borough Green 31 March |
Form 3 April |
Thalictrum minus |
A morphologically variable, perennial herb found in calcareous or other base-rich habitats where competition is low, including fixed dunes, scrubby banks, rocky lake and river edges, limestone and serpentine cliffs, limestone grassland and pavement and montane rock ledges. It also occurs in other habitats, including churchyards, hedge banks and roadsides, as a garden escape. 0-855 m (Snowdon, Caerns.). |
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Flower |
Flowers July |
Foliage section |
Foliage |
A perennial herb of wet habitats, particularly those with seasonal water level fluctuations. It is found in springs and flushes, around ponds, on lake shores, streamsides, in dune-slacks, marshes, water-meadows, flood pastures, bogs and in ditches and track ruts. It usually grows in oligotrophic or mesotrophic water over neutral to acid substrates. 0-930 m (Carnedd Llewelyn, Caerns.). |
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Flower 24 May |
Foliage 28 June |
Leaf 28 June |
Form 28 June |
Caltha palustris |
A perennial herb of various wet habitats, usually neutral to base-rich rather than very acidic, including Alnus carr, the edges of rivers, streams, canals, lakes and ponds, ditches and winter-wet meadows and pastures. A small form, var. radicans, is found in mountain flushes and lake shores in N. & W. Britain and Ireland. 0-1100 m (Braeriach and Lochnagar, S. Aberdeen). |
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Flower April |
Flowers from Sheffield Park on 20 April |
Foliage 26 June |
Form from Sheffield Park on 20 April |
A perennial herb of damp meadows and pastures on a wide variety of soils, only avoiding very dry or acid conditions. It is a characteristic plant of unimproved hay and water-meadow communities, and now of relict herb-rich fragments on damp road verges; it also grows on dune grassland, in montane flushes and in tall-herb communities on rock ledges. It is unpalatable to grazing animals, but easily controlled in intensively managed pastures. 0-1220 m (Cairntoul, S. Aberdeen). Damp Grassland |
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Flower May |
Flower Bud June |
Leaf June |
Form June |
Aconitum anglicum (Syn. Aconitum napellus) |
These tuberous perennial herbs grow on calcareous to slightly acidic soil along stream banks, often in shade, in damp, open woodland and sometimes in damp meadows, and as aliens on roadsides, waste ground and rubbish tips. Generally lowland, but reaching 460 m at Quarnford (Staffs.). |
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Foliage June |
Form |
Form June |
An annual of seasonally flooded, nutrient-rich soils in areas disturbed by machinery or animals, such as hollows on ploughed land, rutted tracks and gateways in pastures. Its seeds appear to be long-lived. Lowland. |
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Seed-Head starting from Flower May |
Developed Seed-Head May |
Foliage May |
Form May |
Pasque Flower |
Syn. Anemone pulsatilla |
A perennial rhizomatous herb of species-rich turf on the slopes of chalk or oolite escarpments, and the banks of ancient earthworks, usually with a South or South-West aspect. Plants produce viable seed, but seedling establishment is rare. Lowland. |
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Flower |
Flowers from Wisley in April |
Foliage |
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An arable weed of dry soils on chalk and limestone, also recorded from tracks, chalk pits and other disturbed habitats. Seed production is low but there is a long-lived soil seed bank. Most populations are small and restricted to field edges. Lowland. |
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Flower June |
Seed-Head June |
Foliage June |
Form June |
Purple Clematis |
A deciduous climber or scrambling perennial, available to gardeners in a wide range of variously coloured cultivars. It is found as a persistent escape in hedgerows and on wasteland, and as a relic of cultivation. Reproduction by seed has not been reported. Lowland. |
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Pyrenean Columbine |
Aquilegia pyrenaica |
This small alpine herb is naturalised only on rock-ledges at the head of Caenlochan Glen, Angus, at an altitude of c. 900 m. It is a very rare casual elsewhere. |
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Ranunculus fluitans |
This is a perennial species which grows in large, rapidly flowing rivers with a stable substrate. It is usually found in base-rich and meso-eutrophic water. In Ireland, it is confined to a single, now locally highly polluted, river. Lowland. |
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Flower in Hooke, Dorset June |
Foliage in Hooke, Dorset |
Leaf in Hooke, Dorset |
Form in Hooke, Dorset |
Round-leaved Crowfoot |
Ranunculus omiophyllus |
A small annual or short-lived perennial which grows in shallow water or on wet soil. Typical sites include the margins of ponds and ditches, flushes, damp depressions, gateways and tracks in pastures and on heathland, and the sheltered backwaters of rivers. Unlike R. hederaceus, it is confined to acidic, mesotrophic or oligotrophic soils. 0-1005 m (Carnedd Llewelyn, Caerns.). |
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Saint Martins Buttercup |
Ranunculus marginatus |
April-May |
A small annual, found as a naturalised weed of bulb-fields in the Isles of Scilly, and as a rare grain, bird-seed and wild-flower mixture alien elsewhere. Lowland. |
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Scilly Buttercup |
Ranunculus muricatus |
An erect annual found naturalised as a weed of cultivated ground in S.W. England, particularly in bulb-fields and gardens in the Isles of Scilly, and as a bird-seed, grain and wool alien elsewhere. Lowland. |
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Ranunculus parviflorus |
An annual of dry disturbed habitats on a range of neutral and calcareous soils. Typical sites include broken turf on cliff edges, open, droughted slopes and banks, rabbit scrapes, tracks, poached gateways, building sites and gardens. The seeds appear to be long-lived, and populations may reappear after disturbance or persist for many years. Lowland. |
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Flower on furrowed stalks May |
Flower May |
Foliage from South Dartmoor May |
Form May |
A short-lived perennial herb of shallow calcareous soils. It is a poor competitor, and intolerant of deep shade, so is usually found in small colonies in woodland glades or open scrub, on scree slopes, rock ledges, hedge banks, and as an introduction in churchyards. Adult plants near senescence (4-5 years old) are typically found with a cohort of seedlings. Lowland. |
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Flower from Halling in March |
Flowers February |
Foliage from North Downs in Kent on 14 March |
Form from North Downs in Kent on 14 March |
A climbing perennial with liana-like woody stems, often covering large areas on hedge banks, hedges and walls, trees and scrub, sand dunes, disused quarry faces and ruins. It is a classic railway plant. On base-rich soils, or utilising lime mortar, the plant can form virtual monocultures. The familiar feathered propagules, `Old Man`s Beard`, disperse readily, and often colonise new cuttings or banks. 0-305 m (N. of Matlock, Derbys.). |
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Fruit October |
Flowers 10 August |
Foliage |
Form in January |
Thread-leaved Water-Crowfoot, Thread-leaved Crowfoot |
Ranunculus trichophyllus |
A small annual or perennial which grows in shallow, still or very slowly flowing water. It is most frequent in ponds, dune-slacks and drainage ditches, but it is also found in larger sites if they are sheltered. It tolerates a range of water chemistry but is most frequent in mesotrophic or eutrophic water. 0-310 m (Alston Moor, Cumberland). |
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Flower May |
Flowers |
Foliage from Richborough 20 May |
Form May |
Three-lobed Crowfoot, Three-lobed Water Crowfoot |
Ranunculus tripartitus (Ranunculus lutarius, Ranunculus obtusiflorus, Ranunculus petiveri) |
March-June |
An annual of shallow water bodies over base- and nutrient-poor substrates, in open sites which are flooded in winter but summer-dry. In S.E. England it is also found in pools in coppiced woodland. Lowland to 300 m at Belstone (N. Devon). |
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Variegated Monkshood |
A perennial with annually renewed tuberous rhizomes, found established in damp places on a range of soils, usually in shaded sites or in tall vegetation. Its habitats are more varied than those of other Aconitum taxa and include damp roadsides and pastures, waste ground and moist woodland. 0?460 m (Quarnford, Staffs.). |
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Ranunculus peltatus |
This perennial or sometimes annual species grows in slow-flowing streams and rivers, coastal lagoons, shallow lakes, ditches, ponds and dune-slacks. It is difficult to define its ecological preferences, as it grows in the upper reaches of highly calcareous rivers but in some areas favours base-poor waters; it has a broad trophic range. Generally lowland, but reaching 500 m at Dogber Tarn (Westmorland). |
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Flower 6 June |
Foliage 6 June |
Leaf 6 June |
Form 6 June |
Virgins Bower |
This is a scrambling or weakly climbing perennial. It is occasionally found naturalised on coastal cliffs, shingle beaches and dunes, and rarely inland. Lowland. |
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This is an annual or short-lived perennial which grows in shallow water in marshes, ponds and ditches, and at the edge of slow-flowing streams and sheltered lakes. It occurs chiefly in water which is eutrophic and at least mildly base-rich, and is favoured by a degree of disturbance. Generally lowland, but reaching 445 m at Small Water (Cumberland |
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Flower 20 May |
Flower with its stem out of water 20 May |
Flowers in stream in Isle of Sheppey June |
Form in Richborough 20 May |
A small, tuberous perennial, dying back in summer. It is naturalised, sometimes in large numbers, in open woodland, grassland and scrub associated with habitation, under park trees, in gardens and on road verges. Lowland |
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Flower from Darenth in Kent on 5 March |
Flower 21 February |
Seed from Darenth in Kent on 5 March |
Foliage from Darenth in Kent on 5 March |
A rhizomatous perennial, found in woodland, on streamsides, under Pteridium, on hedge banks, in heathy grassland, on open moorland, in scree and on limestone pavement. It has a wide pH tolerance, but in woodlands it is most abundant where the vigour of more competitive species is reduced by acidity, waterlogging or regular coppicing. 0-1190 m (Ben Lawers, Mid Perth). |
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Flower from Kent 11 April |
Seeds from Farningham Wood 30 May |
Foliage from Ham Street in 24 April |
Form from Ham Street in 24 April |
Ranunculus auricomus |
A perennial, characteristic of deciduous woodland on chalk, limestone and other basic soils. It also grows in scrub, on roadsides and in churchyards, and rarely on open moorland sheltered by boulders and on montane ledges. It is apomictic, showing considerable variation throughout Europe, though the agamospecies have not yet been formally described in our area. Generally lowland, but reaching 1090 m on Aonach Beag (Westerness). |
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Flower June |
Foliage May |
Leaf June |
Form June |
Yellow Anemone (Yellow Wood Anemone) |
A spring-flowering rhizomatous perennial herb naturalised in shady places, such as in woodland and along paths. Lowland. |
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