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Ranunculus repens

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entry for "Sit-fast":2. Sc.a. The plants restharrow and creeping crowfoot. 1808 JAMIESON, Sitfasts, restharrow. 1825 {emem} Suppl., Sitfast, Creeping Crowfoot, Ranunculus Repens.
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avoid eating them. The plants then take advantage of the cropped ground around them to spread their stolons. Creeping buttercup also is spread through the transportation of
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is a diminutive of 'rana', meaning 'little frog'. This name is in reference to the amphibious habitat of many
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It is a very common weed of agricultural land and gardens, spreading quickly by its rooting
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growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall. It has both prostrate running stems, which produce
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Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. pp. 326, 328.
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Third Edition. Institute of Irish Studies and The Queen's University of Belfast
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Van Der Kooi, C. J.; Elzenga, J.T.M.; Dijksterhuis, J.; Stavenga, D.G. (2017).
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and new plants at the nodes, and more or less erect flowering stems. The basal
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and resisting removal with a deeply anchored filamentous root ball. In
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Buttercups focus light to heat their flowers and attract insects
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Creeping buttercup was sold in many parts of the world as an
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Stewart and Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland.
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Species of plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae
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and divided into three broad leaflets 1.5–8 cm (
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(2012). 543: 509:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 13: 14: 1495: 775: 528: 325:in which the terminal leaflet is 1331:urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:713678-1 781: 75: 717: 680:New Scientist 25 February 2017 671: 622: 585: 491: 253: 1: 568:Agricultural Research Service 484: 463: 433:in many parts of the world. 7: 1484:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus 10: 1500: 404: 808: 593:Oxford English Dictionary 186: 179: 72:Scientific classification 70: 48: 39: 30: 23: 1479:Plants described in 1753 429:, and has now become an 1464:Flora of temperate Asia 612:Cork University Press. 498:Lansdown, R.V. (2011). 647:10.1098/rsif.2016.0933 610:Webb's An Irish Flora. 436:Like most buttercups, 401:and prefers wet soil. 749:. Plants for a Future 792:at Wikimedia Commons 723:Hackney, P. (1992). 709:Flora of NW Europe: 504:(Europe assessment)" 421:Cultivation and uses 238:. It is also called 516:: e.T164044A5726616 456:. 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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Binomial name
L.
flowering plant
buttercup
Ranunculaceae
Europe
Asia
Africa
restharrow
herbaceous
stoloniferous
perennial plant
roots
leaves
petiole
Ranunculus acris
sessile

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