Scientific name: Ranunculus acris L.
Common name: Meadow Buttercup
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 1 m high.
Stems: Erect without creeping stems or runners.
Leaves: Spirally appearing alternately arranged; lower leaves long stalked, circular, palmate with 5-7 narrow, jagged lobes, hairy; upper leaves stalkless with few, narrow lobes.
Flowers: Yellow, actinomorphic, 15-25 mm across, hermaphrodite, solitary or in cymes; sepals 5, petal-like, green and yellow, hairy, spreading horizontally and free; the petals 5, yellow, with nectaries; stamens numerous, indefinite and free; ovary superior.
Fruits: A cluster of achenes, each 2-3 mm, smooth, with hooked beak, hairless.
Habitat: Meadows, pastures, marshes and roadsides. Distribution: Abundant throughout.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No