| Scientific Name: | Ranunculus repens |
| Common Name: | creeping buttercup |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Trifoliate (ternate), Ovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, Green, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Perennial herb with creeping runners to 1m long that root at nodes; leaves basal or alternate on runners, trifoliate, leaflets each with three main toothed lobes, most 2-5cm long x 3-6cm wide, petioles 10-40cm long; cyme with flowers mostly 2-3cm wide, 5 bright yellow petals (rarely 6-9), sepals 5, many stamens and pistils. | |