Buttercups, Anemones & Allies

Buttercup Family - Ranunculaceae

Oriental Meadow-rue Thalictrum orientale

Native from southern Greece, through Turkey to Lebanon.


Habit	Habit	Flower	Flower

Flower	Leaf	Leaf

Balkan Anemone Anemone blanda

Native to the Balkan Peninsula and from the Caucasus and Turkey to Syria. Flowers with 10-16, blue or sometimes white tepals. Leaves and tepals are hairless on their undersides.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Tepals hairless beneath

Habit	Flowers

Peacock Anemone Anemone hortensis ssp. pavonina

Native through the Balkans to western Turkey. Frequent in grassy places, olive groves and similar places.


Habit	Flower	Flower	Flower

Flower bract	Leaf	Seedhead	Seedhead

Creeping Buttercup Ranunculus repens

Native throughout most of Eurasia, the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East. Spreads by underground rhizomes to form extensive mats of three-lobed leaves, these leaves with conspicuous pale marks on them. Flowers with sepals flattened against the petals.


Habit	Flower	Flower & sepals	Leaf

Rough-fruited Buttercup Ranunculus muricatus

Native to the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to Central Asia and India. A small, annual species of disturbed ground.


Habit	Habit	Flower	Leaf

Leaf	Seedhead	Seedhead	Seedhead

Marginate Buttercup Ranunculus marginatus

Native to Sicily and the Balkan Peninsula, eastwards to the Caucasus and Iran. Typically found in damp places.


Habit	Flower	Flower	Sepals

Leaf	Leaf	Seedhead	Stem hairs

Slender Buttercup Ranunculus gracilis

Native from Italy to North-west Turkey. Typically found in shady places. Patch-forming perennial. Basal leaves long-petiolate, blade triangular-ovate to orbicular, deeply 3-partite, the lobes variously dissected into obtuse segments. Cauline leaves few, reduced to linear segments. Sepals deflexed; petals usually 5 but often more.