🐾 meadow buttercup

Ranunculus acris · wildlife atlas entry

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Ranunculus acris is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, and is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia. Common names include meadow buttercup , tall buttercup , common buttercup and giant buttercup . Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

meadow buttercup — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) rasanaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by rasanaturalist · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Ranunculus acris
Rank	species
Community observations	87,519 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Ranunculales › family Ranunculaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Санкт-Петербург, Санкт-Петербург, Россия, 197372
(c) Kira Paderina, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · North Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
(c) James Teitgen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-16 · Sunset Cottage Rd, Highlands East, ON, CA
(c) PC Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-09-01 · Sisimiut 3911, Grönland
(c) marionfr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-07-28 · Blansko, CZ-BK, CZ
(c) stepanmartinasek, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-17 · Görlsdorf, 16278 Angermünde, Deutschland
(c) bioliminophil, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-18 · Ngamahango 4792, New Zealand
(c) Mike Lusk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

meadow buttercup photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-18 · Московская обл., Россия, 142460
(c) Марина Давлетшина, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

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