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Internal ID UUID643fff6172727958911509
Scientific name Ranunculus flammula
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 548 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Ranunculus idionanthus Gand. Fl. Lyon. : 37 (1875)
Ranunculus caespititius Dumort. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 7: 359 (1868)
Ranunculus telonensis Robert ex Biria Hist. Nat. Renonc. : 37 (1811)
Flammula ranunculus Fourr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon , n.s., 16: 324 (1868)
Ranunculus flammula var. samolifolius (Greene) L.D.Benson Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 306 (1942)
Ranunculus flammula var. angustifolius Wallr.
Ranunculus samolifolius Greene Pittonia 3: 13 (1896)
Ranunculus flammula f. pilosa Gamisans Candollea 32: 59 (1977)
Ranunculus flammula var. varians Blank. Sci. Stud. Montana Coll. Agric., Bot. 1: 55 (1905)
Ranunculus flammula var. strigulosus (Freyn) M.Peck Man. Pl. Oregon : 302 (1941)
Ranunculus flammula var. unalaschensis Ledeb. Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 34(II): 41 (1862)

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Language Common/alternative name
English greater creeping spearwort
English lesser spearwort
Spanish hierba de la flámula
Spanish hierba de la flamula
Belarusian Казялец пякучы
Bulgarian огненоцветно лютиче
Catalan petite douve
Czech pryskyřník plamének
Welsh llafnlys bach
Welsh poethfflam
German kleiner sumpfhahnenfuss
German brenn-hahnenfuß
German petite douve
German brennender hahnenfuß
Estonian sootulikas
Finnish ojaleinikki
French renoncule flammette
French petite flamme
French petite douve
Irish glasair léana bheag
Galician bugallón
Galician flámula
Croatian vatreni žabnjak
Upper Sorbian rěčna maslenka
Hungarian békaboglárka
Italian ranuncolo delle passere
Japanese ラヌンクルス・フランムラ
Cornish flamm les
li eechelgraas
Lithuanian petite douve
Latvian rāvas gundega
Norwegian Bokmål grøftesoleie
Dutch egelboterbloem
Norwegian Nynorsk grøftesoleie
Polish jaskier płomiennik
Russian Лютик жгучий
Slovak iskerník plamenný
Slovenian žgoča zlatica
Swedish Ältranunkel
Swedish petite douve
Swedish Ältgräs
Ukrainian Жовтець вогнистий
Walloon blawete
Walloon flaminete

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Name Authority First published in
Ranunculus flammula subsp. scoticus (E.S.Marshall) Clapham Fl. Brit. Isles 91. 1952 (1952)

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Name Authority First published in
Ranunculus flammula var. ovalis (Bigelow) L.D.Benson Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 69: 305 (1942)

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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- Extinct
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- Native
  • Africa
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores
      • Madeira
    • Northern Africa
      • Algeria
      • Morocco
  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • Middle Asia
      • Kazakhstan
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • West Siberia
    • Western Asia
      • Turkey
  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • South Australia
      • Tasmania
      • Victoria
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Føroyar
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Sicilia
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Sardegna
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Minnesota
      • North Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New York
      • Pennsylvania
      • Vermont
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Northwest Territorie
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000460525
Canadensys 8518
USDA Plants RAFL2
INPN 117025
Flora of Italy 1156
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30013390-2
The Plant List kew-2523412
PFAF Ranunculus flammula
Open Tree Of Life 590073
Observations.org 7295
NCBI Taxonomy 278071
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002718
Nature Serve 2.140931
IUCN Red List 164282
IPNI 30013390-2
iNaturalist 67826
GBIF 3033312
Freebase /m/047tr6h
WisFlora 4759
EPPO RANFM
EOL 473288
Elurikkus 6741
Calflora (Californian flora) 7039
USDA GRIN 30824
Wikipedia Ranunculus_flammula

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Scientific Literature Top

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Do Poisonous Plants in Pastures Communicate Their Toxicity? Meta-Study and Evaluation of Poisoning Cases in Central Europe Aboling S Animals (Basel) 08-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10740430
doi:10.3390/ani13243795
PMID:38136831
The complete chloroplast genome of Ranunculus ternatus (Ranunculaceae) Qiao X, Wang Z, Sun W, Zhu N, Song M Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 08-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10796127
doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2278816
PMID:38239910
The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.) Thompson V, Harkin C, Stewart AJ PLoS One 04-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10602594
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291734
PMID:37792900
Factors impacting the detection of weed seed contaminants in seed lots Buddenhagen CE, Hackell D, Henderson HV, Wynne‐Jones B Pest Manag Sci 11-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC10099985
doi:10.1002/ps.7257
PMID:36308732
Scrub encroachment promotes biodiversity in temperate European wetlands under eutrophic conditions Brunbjerg AK, Fløjgaard C, Frøslev TG, Andersen DK, Bruun HH, Dalby L, Goldberg I, Lehmann LJ, Moeslund JE, Ejrnæs R Ecol Evol 01-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9627074
doi:10.1002/ece3.9445
PMID:36340817
Prophyll in Monocots: The Starting Point of Lateral Shoot Phyllotaxis Choob V Front Plant Sci 13-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9044502
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.855146
PMID:35498710
Local traditional ecological knowledge about hay management practices in wetlands of the Biebrza Valley, Poland Sucholas J, Molnár Z, Łuczaj Ł, Poschlod P J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 22-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8862566
doi:10.1186/s13002-022-00509-9
PMID:35193618
Formalized classification of ephemeral wetland vegetation (Isoëto-Nanojuncetea class) in Poland (Central Europe) Kącki Z, Łysko A, Dajdok Z, Kobierski P, Krawczyk R, Nowak A, Rosadziński S, Popiela AA PeerJ 10-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8362674
doi:10.7717/peerj.11703
PMID:34434642
Feeding Preferences of the Italian Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus italicus Festa, 1925) in a Coastal Mediterranean Environment Freschi P, Fascetti S, Riga F, Rizzardini G, Musto M, Cosentino C Animals (Basel) 26-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7912300
doi:10.3390/ani11020308
PMID:33530361
Rediscovery of Cyperus flavescens (Cyperaceae) on the northeast periphery of its range in Europe Marciniuk P, Marciniuk J, Łysko A, Krajewski Ł, Chudecka J, Skrzyczyńska J, Popiela AA PeerJ 14-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7497605
doi:10.7717/peerj.9837
PMID:32983639
Are Reproductive Traits Related to Pollen Limitation in Plants? A Case Study from a Central European Meadow Bartoš M, Janeček Š, Janečková P, Chmelová E, Tropek R, Götzenberger L, Klomberg Y, Jersáková J Plants (Basel) 19-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7285000
doi:10.3390/plants9050640
PMID:32438589
Can plant traits predict seed dispersal probability via red deer guts, fur, and hooves? Petersen TK, Bruun HH Ecol Evol 13-Aug-2019
PMCID:PMC6745656
doi:10.1002/ece3.5512
PMID:31534692
Botanical Provenance of Traditional Medicines From Carpathian Mountains at the Ukrainian-Polish Border Kozlowska W, Wagner C, Moore EM, Matkowski A, Komarnytsky S Front Pharmacol 05-Apr-2018
PMCID:PMC5895925
doi:10.3389/fphar.2018.00295
PMID:29674964
Do large‐seeded herbs have a small range size? The seed mass–distribution range trade‐off hypothesis Sonkoly J, Deák B, Valkó O, Molnár V. A, Tóthmérész B, Török P Ecol Evol 19-Nov-2017
PMCID:PMC5743478
doi:10.1002/ece3.3568
PMID:29299293
Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Fungi – 20 May TW IMA Fungus 01-Jun-2017
PMCID:PMC5493534
doi:10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.01.12
PMID:28824847

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