Bristly Buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus Michx.)
Also known as hispid buttercup.
USDA PLANTS and BONAP treat Carolina buttercup (Ranunculus septentrionalis) and northern swamp buttercup (Ranunculus caricetorum) as varieties of this species. We treat all three as separate species, per POWO and FSUS. MBP treats R. caricetorum as its own species but lumps R. septentrionalis as a variety of this species.
↑Range - Expand
| Legend | Color |
| Native | |
| 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.
This species is also native to Ontario but we have yet to build this portion of its map.
↑Links & External Resources
• Ranunculus hispidus (Hispid Buttercup) | Illinois Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus var. hispidus (bristly buttercup) | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus | Go Botany (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus var. hispidus | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus var. hispidus | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus var. hispidus | Flora of North America (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus‡ | Missouri Plants (About This Site)
• Bristly Buttercup (hispidus) Ranunculus hispidus var. hispidus | Maryland Biodiversity Project (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus (Hispid Buttercup)‡ | Minnesota Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus Michx. (Bristly Buttercup, Hispid Buttercup) | Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora (About This Site)
• Ranunculus hispidus Michx. | Plants of the World Online (POWO) (About This Site)
Different Taxonomic Treatments
‡ These links refer to a larger population than covered by this page.
