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Meadow Buttercup

Flowering Plants

A herbaceous perennial native to Eurasia with a circumpolar distribution, now naturalized across much of North America and established as a serious pasture weed in New Zealand, where some populations have developed herbicide resistance. It grows thirty to a hundred centimeters tall, with compound leaves of finely cut, hairy leaflets and glossy yellow flowers about 25 millimeters across, each with five overlapping petals above green sepals and numerous stamens. It typically grows in grazed or mown neutral grassland, occupying soils with drainage between the drier ground favored by related buttercups and the wetter ground favored by others.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Invasive or Introduced Species 1
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
G5 Secure 3
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 4
Scientific Name
Ranunculus acris 1
Conservation Status
Not Evaluated 5
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Ranunculaceae, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Meadow Buttercup

In Biome

Grassland, Biomes
Source Plants For A Future: Ranunculus acris
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Albania

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Austria

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Belarus

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Belgium

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Bulgaria

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Denmark

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Finland

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France

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Georgia

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Germany

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Greece

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Hungary

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Iceland

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Ireland

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Italy

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Kazakhstan

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Mongolia

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Netherlands

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North America

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Norway

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Peru

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Poland

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Romania

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ranunculus acris
Wikipedia
  • Wikidata Q157563 (P225 taxon name)
  • lead sentence (diet), EntityId 344457
    Ranunculus acris is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, and is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia.
  • article text (relationship to people), EntityId 344457
    The plant is native to Eurasia, but has been introduced across much of the world so that it now has a circumpolar distribution.
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2. GBIF Species API
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3. NatureServe Explorer: Ranunculus acris
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G5"
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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Ranunculales
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12388
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12388
"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Ranunculales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]
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5. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Ranunculus acris
GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 3033363, category field
Quote, GBIF taxon key 3033363, category field
"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Ranunculaceae
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12545
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12545
"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Ranunculales","family":"Ranunculaceae"},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Adonis, sceau d’or","language":"FR"},{"name":"Adonis de primavera","language":"ES"},{"name":"Golden seals, yellow adonis, yellow root","language":"EN"},{"name":"毛茛科","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]
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Wikidata: Meadow Buttercup
Child Taxon Of: Ranunculaceae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
Plants For A Future: Ranunculus acris
Plants For A FutureIn Biome: Grassland, Habitats
Quote, In Biome: Grassland, Habitats
Damp meadows and pastures, usually on calcareous or circum-neutral soils ... Also found on damp rock ledges, in gullies and occasionally on mountain top detritus
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