#Ranunculaceae

[faguscarolinensis]

Helleborus x 'Royal Heritage' / 'Royal Heritage' Lenten Rose at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC

[francescointoppa]

Anemone dei fiorai (Anemone coronaria L., Ranunculaceae)

[suncaida]

Ranunculus!!! that is all :)

[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

[heather-rajendran]

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

[syngoniums]

Prairie larkspur (Delphinium carolinianum).

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

"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

[faguscarolinensis]

Ranunculus ficaria 'Coppernob' / 'Coppernob' Lesser Celandine at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC

[francescointoppa]

Elleboro fetido (Helleborus foetidus L., Ranunculaceae)

[leelarots]

this is definitely some kind of hellebore, but I can't really identify the exact species—it is possibly a christmas rose.

despite resembling dog roses in some respects, with rose related names for multiple species, hellebores are part of the ranunculaceae family, a.k.a. the buttercup family.

[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

[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.