Ranunculus cantoniensisDC.

WFO wfo-0000461683 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. a WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 195887111
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. b WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195885718
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184049011
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by chiuluan
fig. d chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182199062
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by fagushayata
fig. e fagushayata, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165757596
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by chiuluan
fig. f chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 124563257
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 111345269
Ranunculus cantoniensis, photographed by chiuluan
fig. h chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89404215

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Ranunculus cantoniensis is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Primorye, Qinghai, Taiwan, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTaiwanTibetTurkmenistanTuvaUzbekistanXinjiangAssamEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanThailandVietnamWest Himalaya KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Ranunculus cantoniensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Nansei-shoto NNS
Ogasawara-shoto OGA
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
Xinjiang CHX
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Ogasawara-shoto. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 161 in flower of 176 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Ranunculus cantoniensis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 161 of 176 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adonis pilosa (Lour.) Raeusch.
  • Hecatonia pilosa Lour.
  • Ranunculus brachyrhynchus Chien
  • Ranunculus chinensis Bunge
  • Ranunculus fibrosus Wall.
  • Ranunculus napaulensis DC.
  • Ranunculus pennsylvanicus subsp. napaulensis (DC.) Riedl
  • Ranunculus pennsylvanicus subsp. riparius (Edgew.) Riedl
  • Ranunculus pensylvanicus var. chinensis (Bunge) Maxim.
  • Ranunculus polycephalus Makino
  • Ranunculus riparius Edgew.
  • Ranunculus sceleratiformis Raikova
  • Ranunculus trilobatus D.Don

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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