Ranunculaceae, the Glossary
Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide.[1]
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158 relations: Achene, Aconitum, Aconitum napellus, Actaea (plant), Actaea racemosa, Actaea simplex, Adonideae, Adonis (plant), Adonis annua, Alkaloid, American Journal of Botany, Anemoclema, Anemonastrum, Anemone, Anemoneae, Anemonoides, Anemonoides nemorosa, Anemonopsis, Anemophily, Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Aquilegia, Aquilegia vulgaris, Arcteranthis, Asteropyrum, Beckwithia (plant), Beesia, Berberidaceae, Berry (botany), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Calathodes, Callianthemoides, Callianthemum, Caltha, Caltha palustris, Carl Linnaeus, Ceratocephala (plant), Cimicifugeae, Circaeaster, Circaeasteraceae, Clade, Cladogram, Clematis, Clematis recta, Clematis virginiana, Consolida, Coptis, Coptis trifolia, Cyrtorhyncha, Delphinium, ... Expand index (108 more) »
- Eudicot families
- Extant Cretaceous first appearances
Achene
An achene, also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants.
Aconitum
Aconitum, also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Aconitum napellus
Aconitum napellus, monkshood, aconite, Venus' chariot or wolfsbane, is a species of highly toxic flowering plants in the genus Aconitum of the family Ranunculaceae, native and endemic to western and central Europe.
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Actaea (plant)
Actaea, commonly called baneberry, bugbane and cohosh, is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to subtropical, temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.
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Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosa, the black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, rattle-top, or fairy candle (syn. Cimicifuga racemosa), is a species of flowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae.
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Actaea simplex
Actaea simplex, the baneberry or bugbane, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.
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Adonideae
Adonideae is an accepted tribe of the subfamily Ranunculoideae.
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Adonis (plant)
Adonis is a genus of about 20–30 species of flowering plants of the crowfoot family, Ranunculaceae, native to Europe and Asia.
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Adonis annua
Adonis annua (syn. Adonis autumnalis L., in The Plant List Adonis phoenicea Bercht. & J.Presl.), also known as pheasant's-eye, in Tropicos Adonis' flower, autumn Adonis, autumn pheasant's-eye, blooddrops, red chamomile, red Morocco, rose-a-ruby, and soldiers-in-green, is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae.
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Alkaloid
Alkaloids are a class of basic, naturally occurring organic compounds that contain at least one nitrogen atom.
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American Journal of Botany
The American Journal of Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers all aspects of plant biology.
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Anemoclema
Anemoclema is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Anemonastrum
Anemonastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Anemone
Anemone is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.
Anemoneae
Anemoneae is an accepted tribe of the subfamily Ranunculoideae.
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Anemonoides
Anemonoides is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.
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Anemonoides nemorosa
Anemonoides nemorosa (syn. Anemone nemorosa), the wood anemone, is an early-spring flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe.
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Anemonopsis
Anemonopsis, the false anemone, is a monotypic genus in the family Ranunculaceae, containing only the species Anemonopsis macrophylla, endemic to Japan's main island of Honshu.
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Anemophily
Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.
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Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants (angiosperms) that reflects new knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies.
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.
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Aquilegia
Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 130 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher elevations throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petalsPuzey, J.R., Gerbode, S.J., Hodges, S.A., Kramer, E.M., Mahadevan, L.
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Aquilegia vulgaris
Aquilegia vulgaris is a species of columbine native to Europe with common names that include: European columbine, common columbine, granny's nightcap, and granny's bonnet.
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Arcteranthis
Arcteranthis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Asteropyrum
Asteropyrum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Beckwithia (plant)
Beckwithia is a genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae.
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Beesia
Beesia is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family.
Berberidaceae
The Berberidaceae are a family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. Ranunculaceae and Berberidaceae are eudicot families.
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Berry (botany)
In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is a scientific journal publishing original papers relating to the taxonomy of all plant groups and fungi, including anatomy, biosystematics, cytology, ecology, ethnobotany, electron microscopy, morphogenesis, palaeobotany, palynology and phytochemistry.
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Calathodes
Calathodes is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Callianthemoides
Callianthemoides is a genus of plants in the family Ranunculaceae, with a single species, Callianthemoides semiverticillata.
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Callianthemum
Callianthemum is a genus that consists of 24 species of little rhizomatous herbs from high mountains in Europe, Central Asia and East Asia.
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Caltha
Caltha is a genus of rhizomatous perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae ("buttercup family"), to which ten species have been assigned.
Caltha palustris
Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium sized perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Ceratocephala (plant)
Ceratocephala is a flowering plant genus in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Cimicifugeae
The Cimicifugeae are a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, based on the now obsolete genus Cimicifuga (sometimes called "bugbane" or "cohosh").
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Circaeaster
Circaeaster agrestis is a flowering plant species and one of only one to two species in its family, the Circaeasteraceae.
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Circaeasteraceae
Circaeasteraceae is a family of two species of herbaceous plants native to China and the Himalayas. Ranunculaceae and Circaeasteraceae are eudicot families.
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Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
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Clematis
Clematis is a genus of about 380 species within the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.
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Clematis recta
Clematis recta, the erect clematis or ground virginsbower, is a species of Clematis unusual in that it is a free-standing shrub rather than a climbing plant.
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Clematis virginiana
Clematis virginiana (also known as devil's darning needles, devil's hair, love vine, traveller's joy, virgin's bower, Virginia virgin's bower, wild hops, and woodbine; syn. Clematis virginiana L. var. missouriensis (Rydb.) Palmer & Steyermark) is a vine of the Ranunculaceae (buttercup family) native to North America from Newfoundland to southern Manitoba down to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Consolida
Consolida is a genus of about 40 species of annual flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to western Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia.
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Coptis
Coptis (goldthread or canker root) is a genus of between 10 and 15 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Asia and North America.
Coptis trifolia
Coptis trifolia, commonly known as the threeleaf goldthread or savoyane, is a perennial plant in the genus Coptis, a member of the family Ranunculaceae.
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Cyrtorhyncha
Cyrtorhyncha is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Delphinium
Delphinium is a genus of about 300 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa.
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Delphinium elatum
Delphinium elatum is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, known by the common name alpine delphinium, guardian lavender, or candle larkspur.
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Dichocarpum
Dichocarpum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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Enemion
Enemion (false rue-anemone) are spring ephemerals with white flowers, branching stems, and finely divided leaves in the buttercup family.
Entomophily
Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects.
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Eranthis
Eranthis is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to southern Europe and east across Asia to Japan.
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Eriocapitella
Eriocapitella is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.
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Eudicots
The eudicots, Eudicotidae, or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants (angiosperms) which are mainly characterized by having two seed leaves (cotyledons) upon germination.
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Euptelea
Euptelea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the monogeneric family Eupteleaceae.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Ficaria
Ficaria is a small genus of several species of plants in the family Ranunculaceae, which were previously grouped with Ranunculus.
Ficaria verna
Ficaria verna (formerly Ranunculus ficaria), commonly known as lesser celandine or pilewort, is a low-growing, hairless perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Follicle (fruit)
In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
Glaucidium palmatum
Glaucidium is a genus of plants in family Ranunculaceae, comprising a single species Glaucidium palmatum (Japanese wood poppy; シラネアオイ Shirane-aoi).
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Glycoside
In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.
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Goldenseal
Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), also called orangeroot or yellow puccoon, is a perennial herb in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to North America.
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Gymnaconitum
Gymnaconitum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Gynoecium
Gynoecium (gynoecia) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.
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Halerpestes
Halerpestes is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Hamadryas (plant)
Hamadryas is a genus of flowering, perennial herbs in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Hellebore
Commonly known as hellebores, the Eurasian genus Helleborus consists of approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae.
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Helleborus niger
Helleborus niger, commonly called Christmas rose or black hellebore, is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.
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Hepatica
Hepatica (hepatica, liverleaf, or liverwort) is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the buttercup family, native to central and northern Europe, Asia and eastern North America.
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Herbaceous plant
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
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Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Homeopathy
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.
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Inflorescence
An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.
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Isopyrum
Isopyrum is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae native to Eurasia.
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Isopyrum thalictroides
Isopyrum thalictroides is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Karl Anton Eugen Prantl
Karl Anton Eugen Prantl (10 September 1849 – 24 February 1893), also known as Carl Anton Eugen Prantl, was a German botanist.
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Kingdonia
Kingdonia uniflora is a species of perennial herb native to China.
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Knowltonia (plant)
Knowltonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Krapfia
Krapfia is a genus of plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the Andes.
Kumlienia
Kumlienia is a small genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family known generally as false buttercups.
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Laccopetalum
Laccopetalum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Lardizabalaceae
Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants. Ranunculaceae and Lardizabalaceae are eudicot families.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Leptopyrum
Leptopyrum is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Megaleranthis
Megaleranthis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae (botanical Latin: 'moonseed family' from Greek mene 'crescent moon' and sperma 'seed') is a family of flowering plants. Ranunculaceae and Menispermaceae are eudicot families.
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Metanemone is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson (7 April 17273 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna.
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Minoru N. Tamura
Minoru N. Tamura is a Japanese botanist at the Botanical Garden of the City University, Osaka.
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Missouri Botanical Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
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Myosurus
The genus Myosurus, or mousetail, belongs to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Nectar
Nectar is a viscous, sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection.
Nigella
Nigella is a genus of 18 species of annual plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Southern Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia and Middle East.
Nigella arvensis
Nigella arvensis, the field nigella or wild fennel flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Nigella damascena
Nigella damascena, love-in-a-mist, or devil in the bush, is an annual garden flowering plant, belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.
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Nigella sativa
Nigella sativa (black caraway, also known as black cumin, nigella, kalonji, charnushka) is an annual flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to eastern Europe (Bulgaria and Romania) and western Asia (Cyprus, Turkey, Iran and Iraq), but naturalized over a much wider area, including parts of Europe, northern Africa and east to Myanmar.
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North Dakota
North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.
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Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Oxygraphis
Oxygraphis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Paleocene
The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).
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Panicle
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence.
Papaver
Papaver is a genus of 70–100 species of frost-tolerant annuals, biennials, and perennials native to temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, Africa and North America.
Papaveraceae
The Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. Ranunculaceae and Papaveraceae are eudicot families.
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Paraquilegia
Paraquilegia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Paroxygraphis
Paroxygraphis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Peltocalathos
Peltocalathos is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Peony
The peony or paeony is any flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae.
Petal
Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Phytotaxa
Phytotaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for rapid publication on any aspect of systematic botany.
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Plant reproductive morphology
Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.
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Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
Protoanemonin
Protoanemonin (sometimes called anemonol or ranunculol) is a toxin found in all plants of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).
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Pulsatilla
The genus Pulsatilla contains about 40 species of herbaceous perennial plants native to meadows and prairies of North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Pulsatilla alpina
Pulsatilla alpina, the alpine pasqueflower or alpine anemone, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the mountain ranges of central and southern Europe, from central Spain to Croatia.
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Pulsatilla pratensis
Pulsatilla pratensis (syn. Anemone pratensis), the small pasque flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to central and eastern Europe, from southeast Norway and western Denmark south and east to Bulgaria.
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Raceme
A raceme or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers.
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide. Ranunculaceae and Ranunculaceae are eudicot families and Extant Cretaceous first appearances.
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Ranunculales
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants.
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Ranunculeae
Ranunculeae is an accepted tribe of the subfamily Ranunculoideae.
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Ranunculoideae
Ranunculoideae is a subfamily of the family Ranunculaceae.
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Ranunculus
Ranunculus is a large genus of about 1700 to more than 1800 species --> of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Ranunculus acris
Ranunculus acris is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, and is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia.
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Ranunculus auricomus
Ranunculus auricomus, known as goldilocks buttercup or Greenland buttercup, is a perennial species of buttercup native to Eurasia.
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Ranunculus bulbosus
Ranunculus bulbosus, commonly known as bulbous buttercup or St.
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Rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Saxifragales
Saxifragales (colloquial/plural: the saxifrages) is an order of angiosperms, or flowering plants, containing 15 botanical families and around 100 genera, with nearly 2,500 species.
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Semiaquilegia
Semiaquilegia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to eastern Asia.
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Sensu
Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".
Sepal
A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).
Sister group
In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
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Stamen
The stamen (stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.
Staphisagria
Staphisagria is a genus in the family Ranunculaceae native to the Mediterranean.
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Staphisagria macrosperma
Staphisagria macrosperma, formerly known as Delphinium staphisagria, is a species of Staphisagria of the family Ranunculaceae.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
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Symmetry in biology
Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
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Taxon (journal)
Taxon is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering plant taxonomy.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
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Thalictrum
Thalictrum is a genus of 120-200 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native mostly to temperate regions.
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Thalictrum delavayi
Thalictrum delavayi, Chinese meadow-rue, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae native to China.
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Thalictrum thalictroides
Thalictrum thalictroides (syn. Anemonella thalictroides), the rue-anemone or windflower, is a herbaceous perennial plant native to woodland in eastern North America.
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Trautvetteria
Trautvetteria is a genus of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native from the Russian Far East to Japan, and to the southwestern and south central United States and Mexico.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Trollius
Trollius is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants closely related to Ranunculus, in the family Ranunculaceae.
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Urophysa
Urophysa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
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Xanthorhiza
Xanthorhiza simplicissima (yellowroot) is the only member of the genus Xanthorhiza, and one of very few genera in the family Ranunculaceae with a woody stem (the other notable example being Clematis).
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Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation (formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the late Barremian and early Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous.
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See also
Eudicot families
- Aptandraceae
- Balanophoraceae
- Berberidaceae
- Berberidopsidaceae
- Buxaceae
- Circaeasteraceae
- Dilleniaceae
- Eremolepidaceae
- Erythropalaceae
- Lardizabalaceae
- Loranthaceae
- Menispermaceae
- Nelumbonaceae
- Octoknemaceae
- Olacaceae
- Opiliaceae
- Papaveraceae
- Platanaceae
- Proteaceae
- Ranunculaceae
- Sabiaceae
- Santalaceae
- Schoepfiaceae
- Trochodendraceae
Extant Cretaceous first appearances
- Alethinophidia
- Antlion
- Argasidae
- Bichir
- Calappidae
- Carcharias
- Centroberyx
- Dolichopodidae
- Eel
- Empididae
- Eubrachyura
- Eutardigrade
- Fissurina (foram)
- Glycymeris
- Heptranchias
- Ixodidae
- Lanternfish
- Lingula (brachiopod)
- Liquidambar
- Lorica (chiton)
- Mactridae
- Mantis
- Margaritifera
- Mastotermes
- Murex
- Mymarommatidae
- Nephrops
- Odontaspis
- Orthurethra
- Pandermochelys
- Pecten (bivalve)
- Platanaceae
- Ranunculaceae
- Rosaceae
- Rosids
- Sciaridae
- Sigmurethra
- Stylommatophora
- Superasterids
- Superrosids
- Theridiidae
- Tympanotonos
- Volutoidea
- Zoraptera
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculaceae
Also known as Buttercup Family, Crowfoot family, Glaucidiaceae, Ranunculacae.
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