Scientific name: Ranunculus parviflorus L.
Common name: Small-flowered Buttercup
Description
Habit: A hairy annual, to 40 cm high.
Stems: Semi-erect, spreading, weak.
Leaves: Spirally appearing alternately arranged or basal, usually without stipules and with stalk, hairy; lower leaves nearly circular, lobed about halfway into 3-5 lobes; upper leaves linear and deeply divided.
Flowers: Pale yellow, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 3-6 mm across; sepals 5, bent backwards down the stalk, free; petals 5 or fewer, as long as sepals; stamens numerous, indefinite and free; ovary superior.
Fruits: A cluster of achenes, 2.5-3.5 mm, with short hooked beak, with small swellings having spines on their sides.
Habitat: Cultivated fields.Distribution: Rare, only on the Aran Islands.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: Yes