Scientific Name: Ranunculus repens
Common Name: creeping buttercup
Family Name: Ranunculaceae
Origin: Africa, Central / west Asia, Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, 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:
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, alternate on runners, trifoliate, leaflets each with three main toothed lobes, petioles 10-40cm long; cyme with florets mostly 2-3cm wide, 5 bright yellow petals (rarely 6-9), sepals 5, many stamens and pistils.