buttercup family

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buttercup family

A large family of chiefly herbaceous plants, the Ranunculaceae, characterized by radially symmetrical, often showy flowers sometimes with numerous stamens, and including buttercup, clematis, columbine, and delphinium.

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buttercup family - a family of Ranunculaceae

crowfoot family, family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae

magnoliid dicot family - family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms

order Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae

genus Ranunculus, Ranunculus - annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot

Aconitum, genus Aconitum - genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal

Actaea, genus Actaea - baneberry

genus Adonis, Adonis - annual or perennial herbs

genus Anemone - perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions

Anemonella, genus Anemonella - one species: rue anemone

genus Aquilegia - columbine

Caltha, genus Caltha - a genus of Caltha

Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga - small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane

genus Clematis - large genus of deciduous or evergreen woody vines or erect herbs

Coptis, genus Coptis - small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers

Consolida, genus Consolida - plants having flowers resembling the larkspur's but differing from larkspur's in the arrangement of petals; sometimes included in genus Delphinium

genus Delphinium - large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous

Eranthis, genus Eranthis - winter aconite

genus Helleborus, Helleborus - a genus of Helleborus

genus Hepatica - small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions; allied to genus Anemone

genus Hydrastis, Hydrastis - small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan

genus Isopyrum, Isopyrum - tufted perennial herbs of northern hemisphere

genus Laccopetalum, Laccopetalum - one species: giant buttercup

genus Nigella - erect annual Eurasian herbs

genus Pulsatilla, Pulsatilla - includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers

genus Thalictrum, Thalictrum - widely distributed genus of perennial herbs: meadow rue

genus Trautvetteria, Trautvetteria - small genus of perennial herbs: false bugbane

genus Trollius, Trollius - perennial herbs of north temperate regions: globeflowers

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THIS pretty rockery plant, a member of the buttercup family, comes into flower long before the more well-known aubrieta, alyssum and arabis, but is no less effective.

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And that's the whole trouble with Ranunculus ficaria - a member of the buttercup family and a plant native to Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, Caucasus, and Siberia - it'll grow pretty much anywhere.