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§1 Plant
Ranunculus flammula L.
vernacular greater creeping spearwort — species · Ranunculaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ranunculaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ranunculus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 181 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–24 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 25,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 181 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 19 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Aleutians West 02016
- Bethel 02050
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Ketchikan Gateway 02130
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Sitka 02220
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yakutat 02282
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 21 N ▾
- Alger 26003
- Baraga 26013
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Delta 26041
- Gogebic 26053
- Houghton 26061
- Keweenaw 26083
- Lake 26085
- Leelanau 26089
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Marquette 26103
- Montmorency 26119
- Muskegon 26121
- Ontonagon 26131
- Presque Isle 26141
- Schoolcraft 26153
- St. Clair 26147
- Wexford 26165
Minnesota view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Blue Earth 27013
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Hennepin 27053
- Hubbard 27057
- Itasca 27061
- Kittson 27069
- Koochiching 27071
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Le Sueur 27079
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Pine 27115
- Ramsey 27123
- St. Louis 27137
- Washington 27163
Montana view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 10 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 6 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RAFL2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3033312 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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