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§1 Plant

Ranunculus arvensis L.

vernacular corn buttercup — species · Ranunculaceae


USDA
RAAR3
GBIF
3033348
Rank
species
corn buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis)
Platephotograph · sami-youssefCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Ranunculaceae Juss.
Genus
Ranunculus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 48 counties across 18 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 48 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 48 counties across 18 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 8 I
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I
Montana view state ↗ 5 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 2 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 I
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/RAAR3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3033348 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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