#Ranunculaceae

[margocooper]

Чистяк весенний, или лютик весенний (лат. Ficaria verna). Апрель 24. Ficaria verna Huds. (Ranunculaceae). April 24.

[k-botany]

Anemone - Eriocapitella x hybrida

[oliviarosaline]

Sharp-lobed Hepatica

Hepatica acutiloba

These gorgeous spring ephemerals are usually found in woods with rich, somewhat alkaline, well drained-soils across eastern North America. Their flowers can vary in color and petal count. The hepatica plants pictured were growing on wooded hillsides featuring dolomite rock outcrops.

March 30th, 2023

St. Francois County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[aliciasilvastuff]

From farmluxe

[francescointoppa]

Ranuncolo favagello (Ficaria verna Huds. (= Ranunculus f.), Ranunculaceae)

[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | flourishflowerfarm

[faguscarolinensis]

Delphinium elatum 'Pink Punch' / 'Pink Punch' Alpine Larkspur at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

[heather-rajendran]

Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) wildflower photos I took yesterday 15/04/2024, Stanley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK

[syngoniums]

Prairie larkspur (Delphinium carolinianum).

[sparkingviolets]

"You Spin Me 'Round" Watercolor on Black Paper 2023, 22"x 30" White Ranunculus

[estholden]

Anemone hepatica or liverwort of the Ranunculaceae is a species native to woodlands and can be found for e.g. in North America, continental Europe and Japan.

Fan facts about flowers:

-produce pollen but no nectar

-is slightly toxic but drying herbs makes it non-toxic

-in medieval ages it was believed to treat liver diseases

[drhoz]

#2616 - Ranunculus lyallii - Mount Cook Lily

Despite the common name, not a lily. It is, in fact, the world's largest buttercup, up to a meter tall, and the only one with peltate leaves. The flowers are white, rather than yellow, and up to 8cm across with 10-20 petals.

Photo by Pseudopanax on Wiki, with Aoraki / Mount Cook in the background

The species was discovered by David Lyall, (1817–1895), a noted Scottish botanist and doctor. His friend, the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker, (1817–1911), noted in his Flora Antarctica:

Among his many important botanical discoveries in this survey was that of the monarch of all buttercups, the gigantic white-flowered Ranunculus lyallii, the only known species with peltate leaves, the 'water-lily' of the New Zealand shepherds.--Joseph Dalton Hooker (1895) 33 Journal of Botany, p. 209.

The species is confined to montane and subalpine herbfield and creek sides in the Southern Alps and on Stewart Island. Vulnerable to introduced browsing mammals, in particular hares, chamois, deer and tahr.

Arthur's Pass, Aotearoa New Zealand

[thebashfulbotanist]

This plant might not look like much, but it’s a sensitive species in Washington State! This is Actaea elata, tall bugbane, a toxic species in the Ranunculaceae family. It’s not very showy, and it doesn’t have any ethnobotanical uses, but it’s very important to pollinators, especially syrphid flies (hover flies in the family Syrphidae, the ones that mimic bees and wasps). Because it’s rhizomatous, you’ll often find a big cluster of these instead of seeing just one. It grows near the much more common Actaea rubra, red baneberry, and it can be a little hard to distinguish the two species if they’re not flowering or in fruit (as you can see, A. elata has hard follicles rather than the red or white berries that A. rubra produces). 

I found this group of Actaea elata plants growing very close to a clearcut. Logging is one of the biggest threats this species faces - it can’t survive clearcutting and subsequent replacement of the forest with Douglas fir monoculture. This is significant forest management consideration in Washington State - we don’t want this species to become endangered like it is in British Columbia! 

[oliviarosaline]

Tall Thimbleweed

Anemone virginiana

This anemone is native to the United States and southern Canada, where its range extends primarily east of the Great Plains. Its common name originates from the cluster of pistils forming a thimble shape, and it can tolerate and grow in a variety of conditions. This particular plant was thriving in a partly sunny, moist area of the woods near a small creek.

June 22nd, 2023

St. Francois County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[photoblogdujour]

Inner sanctum sanctorus sanctiminee cheeree. A ranunculus is as lucky as lucky can bee. No bees were harmed in the making of this picture. There were actually 3 bumblebees in the picture originally and a wasp and we had to clone them all out in photoshop because they all refused to sign a model release form. When you're getting model releases from strangers, make sure they have an opposable thumb so there is at least the possibility of a signature.

[francescointoppa]

Frutti di Clematide vitalba (Clematis vitalba L., Ranunculaceae)