Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Ranunculus fascicularis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Early Buttercup from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ranunculus fascicularis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ranunculus fascicularis var. fascicularis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ranunculus fascicularis
COMMON NAME:
Early Buttercup, Thick-root Butterdup
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_rafa_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm100314_047
March Decatur County GA
Leaves mostly basal, divided into lobed and toothed segments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
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JK Marlow jkm100314_051
March Decatur County GA
Leaves mostly basal, longer than wide, terminal segment stalked, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm100314_052
March Decatur County GA
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JK Marlow jkm120403_417
April Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
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JK Marlow jkm120403_419
April Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
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JK Marlow jkm120403_421
April Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_r_fascicularis_n
April Floyd County GA
Little Dry Creek Natural Area
Petals longer than they are broad, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Ranunculus fascicularis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ranunculus fascicularis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
INCLUDING
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ranunculus fascicularis var. fascicularis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ranunculus fascicularis
3221
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare, scattered and disjunct in our area
Look for it in wet flats with prairie affinities (with Camassia scilloides), rocky barrens and glades over mafic rocks (such as gabbro or diabase), ultramafic outcrop barrens (over olivine), limestone barrens, prairies, oak savannas., per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Variable
LEAVES:
Larger leaves: mostly pinnately 3-7-foliolate, terminal leaflet larger than lateral leaflets
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
3-5 sepals
5 petals, longer than the sepals
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Aggregate of achenes
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p014
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p041
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p062
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p049