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Ranunculus repens (creeping buttercup)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ranunculus repens, the creeping buttercup, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe, Asia and northwestern Africa. It is also called creeping crowfoot and (along with restharrow) sitfast.
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Infraspecies

Ranunculus repens var. flore-pleno
Ranunculus repens var. repens

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Screening - Summer [3]  Moderate
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]  Mid Spring
Drought Tolerance [3]  Low
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  4 months
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Fall
Growth Form [3]  Stoloniferous
Growth Period [3]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [3]  Rapid
Hazards [4]  All parts of the plant are poisonous; The plant also has a strongly acrid juice that can cause blistering to the skin;
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Bees, Flies, Beetles
Propagation [3]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [3]  Slow
Root Depth [3]  6 inches (15 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Rapid
Seed Vigor [3]  High
Seeds Per [3]  28000 / lb (61729 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Prostrate
Structure [6]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  Slow
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [4]  39 inches (1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Rich
Soil Moisture [5]  Damp
Water Use [3]  Moderate
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♦ 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
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
♦ 8Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
♦ 10Starling-Westerberg, A. N. N. E. (2001). The habitat use and diet of black grouse Tetrao tetrix in the Pennine hills of northern England. Bird Study, 48(1), 76-89.
♦ 11Predicting seasonal diet in the yellow-bellied marmot: success and failure for the linear programming model, G.P. Edwards, Oecologia (1997) 112:320-330
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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