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Ranunculus sceleratus (celeryleaf buttercup; cursed buttercup)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ranunculus sceleratus known by the common names celery-leaved buttercup and cursed buttercup is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It has a circumpolar distribution in the northern hemisphere, native to temperate and boreal North America and Eurasia, where it grows in wet and moist habitats, including ponds and streambanks.
View Wikipedia Record: Ranunculus sceleratus

Infraspecies

Ranunculus sceleratus reptabundus
Ranunculus sceleratus sceleratus (Cursed buttercup)
Ranunculus sceleratus var. multifidus (cursed buttercup)
Ranunculus sceleratus var. sceleratus (cursed buttercup)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Screening - Summer [3]  Porous
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  UV-Green
Flower Color [3]  Yellow
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Fruit Color [3]  Brown
Bloom Period [3]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [3]  None
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  Low
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  90 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Summer
Growth Form [3]  Single Crown
Growth Period [3]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [3]  Rapid
Hazards [4]  All parts of the plant are poisonous when fresh, the toxins are destroyed by heat or by drying; The plant also has a strongly acrid juice that can cause blistering to the skin;
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Flies, Bats
Propagation [3]  Seed
Root Depth [3]  6 inches (15 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [3]  Medium
Seeds Per [3]  25000 / lb (55116 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Erect
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [4]  An extract of the leaves can be used as a fungicide;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  None
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 12 Low Temperature: 50 F° (10 C°) → 55 F° (12.8 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [5]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [5]  Rich
Soil Moisture [5]  Damp
Water Use [3]  High
View Plants For A Future Record : Ranunculus sceleratus

Protected Areas

Predators

Aphis consona (water lily aphid)[7]
Stethomostus fuliginosus[7]
Thecabius affinis[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Entyloma ranunculi-repentis[8]
Uromyces dactylidis[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0