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


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 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 Aconitum napellus

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