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Small-Flowered Buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus L.)

Also known as littleleaf buttercup, kidney-leaved crowfoot.

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Photo © Marilynn Miller, CC BY 4.0.

↑Summary

An inconspicuous but widespread and common flower, a biennial or short-lived perennial.

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Native or Not Present

This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.

Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.

↑Similar Plants

Rock Buttercup (Ranunculus micranthus)
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Allegheny Mountain buttercup (Ranunculus allegheniensis)
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↑Habitat

Found in a wide variety of habitats in partly sunny, moist-to-mesic conditions, in fertile loam to clay-loam soil. Habitats include woodland openings and edges, especially in bottomlands. Common in anthropogenic habitats including paths through woodlands, pastures, abandoned fields, margins of yards, suburban gardens, vacant lots, areas along roadsides and railroads, especially near wet ditches, and other waste ground.

Tolerates some flooding.

In the northeastern portion of its range it is also found in rockier habitats including cliffs, ledges, talus slopes, and rock outcroppings.