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California Buttercup (Ranunculus californicus)
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Flower
Yellow
5 Petals
Many Petals
Alternate
Basal
Typical Height
Perennial
Native
Description
Height 6 in. - 2 ft.
EW Bloom Feb - Apr
This bright yellow flower is 1" across, with 7 to 22 shiny petals.
Buttercups flower in early spring, and die back (including the leaves) in the summer.
Found on coastal bluffs, grassland, woodland and moist meadows.
CA native
AKA Common Buttercup
Buttercup Family (Ranunculaceae)
The buttercup looks like butter, with 7 to 22 elliptic, overlapping, shiny yellow petals.
Each buttercup flower gets its own stalk. The center is a half sphere of packed green
pistils
, surrounded by dozens of yellow
stamens
.
Long-stalked
basal
leaves have 3 deeply-
lobed
leaflets. Leaves on the flower stems have narrow divisions.
Photo Gallery (88 ) click any picture to enlarge
Ranunculus is an ancient flower group - it has been successful for 2,500,000 years. Ranunculus flowers have many petals but are not compound flowers l ...
Leaves are on long stalks. Leaves higher up the stem are often smaller. Each flower gets its own long stalk.
Each buttercup leaf is organized in 3 segments that don't quite separate into 3 leaflets. Each segment has rounded [[lobes]]. Leaf shape varies, ...
The stem and leaves have long woolly hairs.
There are two varieties of California Buttercup. This picture shows var. [i]californicus[/i], with relatively tall 2 foot high stems. Var. [i]cune ...