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Ranunculus repens

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Ranunculopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Ranunculaceae Genus: Ranunculus

butter daisy, creeping buttercup

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Stoloniferous and rhizomatous perennial herbs.

Stems: Stems prostrate or weakly erect, 1–9 dm long, sparsely to densely hirsute.

Roots: If stem prostrate roots at least at the lower nodes.

Leaves: Leaves compound (ternate)(Basal). Cauline Alternate. Leaflets broadly ovate, leaflets 1.5–8 cm long and wide. Surfaces sparsely to moderately appressed pubescent. Margins deeply lobed or divided and toothed; cauline leaves margins entire or serrate. Petiolate. Stipules absent or minute.

Flowers: Flowers few in cymes. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, green or purple–tinged, lanceolate, 5–8 mm long, spreading or erect. Corolla of 5–7 petals; petals yellow, obovate–cuneate, 5–13 mm long, base with a truncate nectary scale. Stamens (5–)numerous; anthers dithecal, opening by a longitudinal slit. Ovary superior; carpels numerous, each 1-celled.

Fruit: Achenes 20–25 in a subglobose head; obovoid; 2.5–3 mm long; margined; the faces smooth; beak ca. 1 mm long; tapering from a broad base; recurved. Seeds with a copious endosperm and small embryo.

Ploidy: 2n = 12; 14; 16; 18; 20; 24; 28; 32

Habitat: Fields and pastures; sometimes in disturbed wet forest along streams.

Elevation Range: 600–1,460 m.

Historical Distribution

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Synonyms (49)

Ranunculastrum repens (L.) Fourr. (1868)
Ranunculastrum reptabundum Fourr. (1868)
Ranunculus belvisii DC. (1817)
Ranunculus caleyanus G.Don (1831)
Ranunculus clintonii L.C.Beck (1833)
Ranunculus infestus Salisb. (1796)
Ranunculus intermedius Eaton (1822)
Ranunculus lagascanus DC. (1824)
Ranunculus lanuginosus Pursh (1813)
Ranunculus lucidus Poir. (1804)
Ranunculus oenanthifolius Ten. & Guss. (1843)
Ranunculus philonotis Pursh (1813)
Ranunculus prostratus Poir. (1804)
Ranunculus pubescens Lag. (1816)
Ranunculus repens f. declinatus C.G.Westerl. (1904)
Ranunculus repens f. glabratus (DC.) Wimm. & Grab. (1829)
Ranunculus repens f. hirsutus Wimm. & Grab. (1829)
Ranunculus repens f. polypetalus S.H.Li & Y.H.Huang (1975)
Ranunculus repens f. pusillus Regel (1862)
Ranunculus repens f. schlechtendalii Kurtz (1894)
Ranunculus repens f. tenuisectus Regel (1862)
Ranunculus repens f. viridiflorus Gaudin (1828)
Ranunculus repens proles reptabundus (Jord.) Rouy & Foucaud (1893)
Ranunculus repens subsp. fistulosus H.Rosend. (1910)
Ranunculus repens subsp. reptabundus (Jord.) P.Fourn. (1928)
Ranunculus repens var. albomaculatus N.H.F.Desp. (1838)
Ranunculus repens var. alpinus Gaudin (1828)
Ranunculus repens var. apiifolius Wallr. (1822)
Ranunculus repens var. brevistylus Maxim. (1890)
Ranunculus repens var. degeneratus Schur (1866)
Ranunculus repens var. elatior Clavaud ex Corb. (1894)
Ranunculus repens var. erectus DC. (1817)
Ranunculus repens var. glabratus DC. (1817)
Ranunculus repens var. latisectus Schur (1866)
Ranunculus repens var. linearilobus DC. (1824)
Ranunculus repens var. lucidus (Poir.) DC. (1813)
Ranunculus repens var. major Nakai (1928)
Ranunculus repens var. myrrhiphyllus Wallr. (1822)
Ranunculus repens var. pleniflorus Fernald (1917)
Ranunculus repens var. prostratus Gaudin (1828)
Ranunculus repens var. suberectus Gaudin (1828)
Ranunculus repens var. tenuifolius Wimm. & Grab. (1829)
Ranunculus repens var. villosiusculus Gaudin (1828)
Ranunculus repens var. villosus Lamotte (1876)
Ranunculus repens var. vulgaris Wimm. & Grab. (1829)
Ranunculus reptabundus Jord. (1861)
Ranunculus schlechtendalii Hook. (1829)
Ranunculus semidecurrens Opiz (1824)
Ranunculus tomentosus Poir. (1804)

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 554 (1753)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1090 (H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Ranunculus repens Kohala Mountains, beginning of access road to upper Hamakua ditch, just below Waimea reservoir In a cow pasture. Preserved_Specimen Wagner, W.L. 5547 Hawaii BISH 1985-06-24
2 Ranunculus repens Puu Mala; S Kohala Pasture of Pennisetum clandestinum. Preserved_Specimen Nagata, K.M. 4301 Hawaii BISH 1994-03-26
3 Ranunculus repens Kohala mountains, Kahua Ranch, near start of Kehena Ditch Trail In shallow gulch. On edge of dense Metrosideros rain forest with understory of Cheirodendron, Gouldia, Myrsine, ect. Preserved_Specimen Davis, J. 890 Hawaii BISH 1982-05-08
4 Ranunculus repens S.Kohala Dist., Puu Kapu Ahu, Kohala mtns, N.E. of Kohakohau St. & S.E. of Puu Kaiholena; growing by running river Wet ohia forest with other native trees. Preserved_Specimen Stemmermann, R.L. 3978 Hawaii BISH 1981-01-01
5 Ranunculus repens Paauhau Paddock Waimea, Hamakua Common in local patches Preserved_Specimen Hosaka, E.Y. 2265 Hawaii BISH 1938-06-09
6 Ranunculus repens Hualalai, W.slope, Honokahau Frank Greenwell's paddocks Preserved_Specimen Kondo, Y. Hawaii BISH 1946-07-26
7 Ranunculus repens N.W. slope Hualalai, Huehue Ranch, Hawaii kipuka at approx. 4000 ft Preserved_Specimen Greenwell, A.B.H. 21394 Hawaii BISH 1951-04-25
8 Ranunculus repens Koa Mill, Alika Homesteads, in open pasture Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 22476 Hawaii BISH 1946-12-30
9 Ranunculus repens Kohala Mts., Kawaihae, Puu Ahia, pasture at edge of wet forest Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 11496 Hawaii BISH 1932-01-02
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