3672

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: eastern Mediterranean Europe

Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare

Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast
• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Southeast
• Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2015
• Kentucky Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2013
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 1994
• Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources
• Plant Conservation Alliance
• SC Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2014
• SC List of Regulated Pest Plant Species, 2017
• Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2014
• Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board
• Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources

 

 

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
3-5 sepals
Typically 8 petals (ranging from six to twenty-six)
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Aggregate of achenes

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control p243
• New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US p087
• New Invaders of the Southeast p087
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p276

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Ficaria verna ssp. chrysocephala   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Ranunculus ficaria var. bulbifera   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Ranunculus ficaria sensu lato (Sell, 1994)
Ranunculus ficaria ssp. chrysocephalus

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Ranunculus ficaria