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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

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

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.) N.H.F.Desp. (1838)
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

Specimens

Bibliography

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

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1090 (H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Ranunculus repens L. hualalai, w.slope, honokahau Frank Greenwell's paddocks PRESERVED_SPECIMEN kondo, y. Hawaii BISH 7/26/1946
2 Ranunculus repens L. kohala mts., kawaihae, puu ahia, pasture at edge of wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. hosaka, e.y. collector number: 11496 Hawaii BISH 1/2/1932
3 Ranunculus repens L. N.W. slope Hualalai, Huehue Ranch, Hawaii kipuka at approx. 4000 ft PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Greenwell, A.B.H. 21394 Hawaii BISH 4/25/1951
4 Ranunculus repens L. kohala mountains, beginning of access road to upper hamakua ditch, just below waimea reservoir In a cow pasture. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wagner, w.l. mill, s.w.; lammers, t.; weller, s.; sakai, a.; davis-jacobsen, j. collector number: 5547 Hawaii BISH 6/24/1985
5 Ranunculus repens L. Puu Mala; South Kohala PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Nagata, K.M. 4301 Hawaii BISH 3/26/1994
6 Ranunculus repens L. 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. Collector Number: 890 Hawaii BISH 5/8/1982
7 Ranunculus repens L. paauhau paddock waimea, hamakua Common in local patches PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hosaka, e.y. collector number: 2265 Hawaii BISH 6/9/1938
8 Ranunculus repens L. Paauhau Paddock Waimea, Hamakua Common in local patches PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hosaka, E.Y. 2265 Hawaii BISH 6/9/1938
9 Ranunculus repens L. Koa Mill, Alika Homesteads, in open pasture PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 22476 Hawaii BISH 12/30/1946
10 Ranunculus repens L. 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. RLS 3978 Hawaii BISH 7/31/1979
11 Ranunculus repens L. Kohala Mts., Kawaihae, Puu Ahia, pasture at edge of wet forest PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 11496 Hawaii BISH 1/2/1932
12 Ranunculus repens L. n.w. slope hualalai, huehue ranch, hawaii kipuka at approx. 4000 ft PRESERVED_SPECIMEN greenwell, a.b.h. collector number: 21394 Hawaii BISH 4/25/1951
13 Ranunculus repens L. koa mill, alika homesteads, in open pasture PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. cowan, r.s.; frederick, l.; rogers, d.p. collector number: 22476 Hawaii BISH 12/30/1946
14 Ranunculus repens L. Puu Mala; S Kohala Pasture of Pennisetum clandestinum. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Nagata, K.M. 4301 Hawaii BISH 3/26/1994
15 Ranunculus repens L. puu mala; south kohala PRESERVED_SPECIMEN nagata, k.m. collector number: 4301 Hawaii BISH 3/26/1994
16 Ranunculus repens L. koa mill, alika homestead PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. st. john, r. s. cowan, l. frederick & d. rogers 22476 Hawaii US 12/30/1946
17 Ranunculus repens L. puu mala; s kohala Pasture of Pennisetum clandestinum. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN nagata, k.m. collector number: 4301 Hawaii BISH 3/26/1994
18 Ranunculus repens L. 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 6/24/1985
19 Ranunculus repens L. 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. collector number: 890 Hawaii BISH 5/8/1982
20 Ranunculus repens L. Kawaihae, DHHL Survey Supp. Sta. E, Puu Lapalapa. Openings in forest with ohia-olapa canopy. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Steve Perlman 10300 Hawaii PTBG 7/18/1989
21 Ranunculus repens L. Koa Mill, Alika Homestead PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H.; Cowan, R. S.; Frederick, L.; Rogers, D. P. 22476 Hawaii US 12/30/1946
22 Ranunculus repens L. Kilauea PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Degener, O. H216 Oahu US 12/24/2022
23 Ranunculus repens L. kilauea PRESERVED_SPECIMEN o. degener h216 Oahu US 12/24/1922
24 Ranunculus repens L. 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 5/8/1982
25 Ranunculus repens L. Hualalai, W.slope, Honokahau Frank Greenwell's paddocks PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Kondo, Y. s.n. Hawaii BISH 7/26/1946
26 Ranunculus repens L. 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. montgomery, s. collector number: rls 3978 Hawaii BISH 8/8/1981
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