NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ranunculaceae

Ranunculaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists: it is also known as the "buttercup family" or "crowfoot family". Members include anemones, buttercups, lesser celandine, aconite, and clematis. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1425x1317, 336 KB) Caltha palustris April 2005 Photo taken by user de:Benutzer:BS Thurner Hof File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Ranunculaceae ... Binomial name Caltha palustris L. The marsh marigold or Caltha palustris is a perennial herbaceous plant of wet places with large attractive yellow flowers borne in late spring. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) â€ Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... In the APG-system, the names eudicots or tricolpates are applied to a monophyletic group that includes most of the (former) dicotyledons. ... Families See text The Ranunculales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. ... Portrait of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist. ... A botanical name is a formal name conforming to the ICBN. As with its zoological and bacterial equivalents it may also be called a scientific name. Botanical names may be in one part (genus and above), two parts (species) or three parts (below the rank of species). ... In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Species About 120; see text Anemone (Anemone) (from the Gr. ... This article is about the flower. ... Binomial name Ranunculus ficaria L. Lesser celandine, (Ranunculus ficaria, Ficaria verna) is a low-growing, hairless perennial with rather fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves. ... Species See text. ... Species See text. ...

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), also recognizes this family and places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots. The family consists of fifty to sixty-five genera, totalling some fifteen to twenty-five hundred species, mostly of herbaceous plants, but with some woody climbers (such as Clematis). They can be found worldwide. A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). ... A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. ... Families See text The Ranunculales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. ... In the APG-system, the names eudicots or tricolpates are applied to a monophyletic group that includes most of the (former) dicotyledons. ... Species See text. ...

Categories: Plant families | Ranunculales Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... Species See text. ... Species Actaea alba - Dolls-eyes, White baneberry, White cohosh Actaea rubra - Red baneberry Actaea spicata - Herb christopher, Eurasian baneberry Actaea x ludovici - Actea Actaea (the bugbanes) are a genus of plants belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. ... Species Adonis aestivalis - Summer Pheasants eye Adonis annua - Blooddrops Adonis vernalis - Spring Pheasants eye Adonis is a genus of plant belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. ... Species About 120; see text Anemone (Anemone) (from the Gr. ... For other things of this name, see Columbine (disambiguation). ... Caltha is a small genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. ... Species Actaea alba - Dolls-eyes, White baneberry, White cohosh Actaea rubra - Red baneberry Actaea spicata - Herb christopher, Eurasian baneberry Actaea x ludovici - Actea Actaea (the bugbanes) are a genus of plants belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. ... Species See text. ... Consolida Categories: Plant stubs | Ranunculales ... Species See text Coptis (Gold Thread or Goldenthread) is a genus of between 10-15 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Asia and North America. ... Species See text Delphinium is a genus of about 250 species of annual, biennial or perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa. ... Binomial name Eranthis hyemalis (L., 1753) The Winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis belongs to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) and is among the first flowers to appear in spring, as early as February. ... Species See text. ... Hellebore (Ranunculaceae helleborus) is a white flower often grown in gardens for decorative purposes, as well as for purported medicinal abilities and uses in witchcraft. ... Species Hepatica acutiloba Hepatica americana Hepatica nobilis Hepatica transsilvanica Hepatica is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. ... Species Hydrastis canadensis Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis) is a perennial herb in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States. ... Isopyrum is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae native to Eurasia. ... Binomial name Myosurus minimus (L., 1753) The genus Myosurus or Mousetail, belongs to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) and comprises about 15 species. ... Species About 14, including: Nigella arvensis Nigella ciliaris Nigella damascena Nigella hispanica Nigella integrifolia Nigella nigellastrum Nigella orientalis Nigella sativa Nigella is a genus of about 14 species of annual plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. ... Pasque flowers Categories: Stub | Flowers | Ranunculales ... This article is about the flower. ... Species See text Thalictrum is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. ... Species About 30, including: Trollius acaulis Trollius altaicus Trollius asiaticus Trollius chinensis Trollius dschungaricus Trollius europaeus Trollius farreri Trollius japonicus Trollius laxus Trollius ledebourii Trollius lilacinus Trollius papaverus Trollius pumilus Trollius ranunculinus Trollius yunnanensis Trollius is a genus of about 30 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae, closely related to... Binomial name Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall The Yellowroot (Xanthorhiza simplicissima, syn. ...