Ranunculus sardous

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : ransa

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Ranunculaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: hairy buttercup

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: FR : renoncule des marais ; IT : ranuncolo sardo ; EN : hairy buttercup ; NL : behaarde boterbloem, NL : moerasboterbloem ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-like.

- First leaf cut till the 1/3 of the blade, further leaves palmately divided.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50 cm.

- Stem erect or spreading, branched, hairy.

- Basal leaves in rosette, alternate, light-green. Leaves hairy, yellowish-green, 3-lobed or ternate, with cut and toothed segments.

- Flowers light-yellow, their peduncle furrowed, rather large, petals longer than the calyx. Receptacle hairy with small and numerous carpels.

- Fruit smooth, beak upward curving.

- Plant toxic.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Ranunculus arvensis , Ranunculus muricatus

Ecological profile (click on flags): Rare Rare Present Present