Common name:
Meadow buttercup
Family:
Scientific name:
Ranunculus acris
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Damp grassland
Flowers:
Up to 25 mm in diameter, with five yellow petals and five much shorter yellow sepals, sparsely long-hairy. Flowers form in open clusters at the top of the stalks, which have a covering of appressed hairs
Leaves:
Deeply divided into three or five lobes, stalked at the base becoming sessile up the stem. The lobes are further divided, into a few narrow, pointed segments. Hairy, especially underneath
Season:
April to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
