Common name:
Celery-leaved buttercup
Family:
Scientific name:
Ranunculus sceleratus
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales, Ireland and England; less common in Scotland
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Wet meadows, boggy ground, pond margins
Flowers:
Small, around 10 mm in diameter; five green sepals and five pale yellow petals, all spreading, a ring of yellow stamens and a high, domed centre of many tightly-packed green carpels. Flowers form at the tip of thick, hairy stalks, in a branched, open cluster
Leaves:
Hairless, divided into three rounded lobes, which, for leaves towards the base, are themselves lobed, and attached by relatively long stalks
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
