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Multi-flowered Buttercup
Ranunculus polyanthemos
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Multi-flowered Buttercup is a tall, many-branched buttercup of dry grasslands across Eurasia. It has shiny golden-yellow flowers held at the tips of its stems and very finely cut leaves at the base. You may notice it in sunny, open meadows and old pastures.
Did you know?
- It resembles Meadow Buttercup, but its basal leaves are cut into much narrower strips.
- It prefers dry, more continental areas and tends to avoid oceanic coasts.
About the species
Identification
Perennial herb 20–80 cm tall, upright and usually well branched. Lower stem and leaf stalks often a little hairy. Basal leaves on long stalks, split into 3–5 deep, very narrow segments; few stem leaves, also narrow. Flowers shiny golden to pale yellow, each on the end of a branch; the upper part of the flower stalk is finely grooved and the small green parts beneath the petals stick outwards. The flower base is hairy. Later a round head of many small hard seeds, each with a tiny slightly curved tip. Differs from Meadow Buttercup by its much narrower, deeper-cut leaves. Flowers in Finland in June–July.
Plant group
Herbaceous plants
Habitat
meadow
Flowering
Jun–Jul
About the habitat
Open, dry to moderately dry grasslands: meadows, pastures and traditional hay fields, also light woodland meadows. Common in southern and eastern Finland; rare on the west coast and becoming scarce further north.
Sources
Photo: Tatyana Davidova, CC BY 4.0 https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/6235523681
Text: Pinkka: Kasvitieteen retkeily Ahvenanmaalle - Lyhyet pysähdykset Ahvenanmaalla, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.37895
Text: Pinkka (Luomus), CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.37895
Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aholeinikki
