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§1 Plant
Ranunculus platensis Spreng.
vernacular prairie buttercup — species · Ranunculaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ranunculaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ranunculus
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 47 counties across 5 states/territories§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 47 counties across 5 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Beauregard 22011
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Iberville 22047
- Jefferson 22051
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- Livingston 22063
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Rapides 22079
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RAPL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3033369 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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