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Bayer Code : ranbu

Scientific name: Ranunculus bulbosus L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Ranunculaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: bulbous buttercup

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Knolliger Hahnenfuß ; ES : hierba velluda ; FR : enoncule bulbeuse ; IT : ranuncolo bulboso ; PT : ranúnculo-bolboso ; EN : bulbous buttercup ; NL : knolboterbloem ; DK : knold-ranunke

Biological type: Perennial with bulbs

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-60 cm.

- Stem erect or ascending, hairy.

- Leaves hairy, ovate in outline, pinnately divided, 3-lobed, cut-dentate, the middle more longitudinally stipitate. Cauline leaves deeply cut.

- Flowers yellow. Sepals reflexed, hairy. Receptacle hairy. Carpels glabrous, flattened, conspicuously bordered, beak short, broad, somewhat hooked at the apex.

- Fruit : numerous carpels in a rounded head. Short beak. Carpel ripe smooth or finely pitted.

- Plant toxic.

- Biological type: perennial with bulbs.

Mistake with: Ranunculus repens

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Rare     France  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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