Buttercup family (Ranunculaceae )

The Buttercup family includes several species of buttercup, plus other flowers such as Wood Anemone, Marsh Marigold, Aconites, Water Crowfoots, and Clematis. It also includes garden plants such as Columbine, Hellebores, Monk's-hood, Pasque-flowers and Delphiniums, plus the huge variety of Clematis grown as climbers.
The usual characteristics of plants in the buttercup family is that they have 5 (or more) regular petals (or sepals), except for Aconitum and Delphinium, and a large number of stamens. Often the brightly-coloured corolla is formed from sepals instead of petals (Wood Anemone, Marsh-marigold). The leaves are usually alternate and palmately divided (except for Clematis). The fruit is usually an achene.
Many plants in this family are poisonous, especially Aconites.

List of flowers currently featured in the Buttercup family

Traveller's Joy Columbine Creeping Buttercup Goldilocks Buttercup Bulbous Buttercup Lesser Celandine
Traveller's Joy
Clematis vitalba
Columbine
Aquilegia vulgaris
Creeping Buttercup
Ranunculus repens
Goldilocks Buttercup
Ranunculus auricomis
Bulbous Buttercup
Ranunculus bulbosus
Lesser Celandine
Ranunculus ficaria


Meadow Buttercup Small-flowered Buttercup Celery-leaved Buttercup Lesser Spearwort Greater Spearwort Marsh-Marigold
Meadow Buttercup
Ranunculus acris
Small-flowered Buttercup
Ranunculus parviflorus
Celery-leaved Buttercup
Ranunculus sceleratus
Lesser Spearwort
Ranunculus flammula
Greater Spearwort
Ranunculus lingua
Marsh-Marigold
Caltha palustris


Globeflower Winter Aconite Wood Anemone Water-crowfoot Ivy-leaved Crowfoot Stinking Hellebore
Globeflower
Trollius europaeus
Winter Aconite
Eranthis hyemalis
Wood Anemone
Anemone nemorosa
Water-crowfoot
Ranunculus spp
Ivy-leaved Crowfoot
Ranunculus hederaceus
Stinking Hellebore
Helleborus foetidus


Monk's-hood
Monk's-hood
Aconitum napellus






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