Ranunculus cassubicus

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus cassubicus, photographed by Ульяна Лалак — fig. b Ульяна Лалак, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205686353

Ranunculus cassubicus, photographed by Tomas Pocius — fig. d Tomas Pocius, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203116967

Ranunculus cassubicus, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева — fig. e Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201985801

Ranunculus cassubicus, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova — fig. f Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201672261

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 04715732
Filed as: Ranunculus cassubicus L.
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: not recorded
Origin: not recorded
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ranunculus cassubicus, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Baltic States	BLT	EUROPE
Belarus	BLR
Bulgaria	BUL
Central European Russia	RUC
East European Russia	RUE
Finland	FIN
Italy	ITA
North European Russia	RUN
Northwest European Russia	RUW
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
South European Russia	RUS
Sweden	SWE
Switzerland	SWI
Kazakhstan	KAZ	ASIA-TEMPERATE
West Siberia	WSB

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 197 in flower of 381 examined

43%

68%

19%

20%

Proportion of examined Ranunculus cassubicus in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	10	0%	0% to 28%
Apr	60	138	43%	35% to 52%
May	131	193	68%	61% to 74%
Jun	5	27	19%	8% to 37%
Jul	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Aug	1	5	20%	4% to 62%
Sep	0	1	too few examined
Oct	0	1	too few examined
Nov	0	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Ranunculus cassubicus 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. 197 of 381 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,960 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-13.0 °C	-10.9 °C	-6.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	21.9 °C	22.8 °C	23.8 °C
Annual rainfall	563 mm	695 mm	765 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	93 mm	109 mm	122 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,960 research-grade observations of Ranunculus cassubicus that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 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.

Ranunculus allemannii Braun-Blanq.
Ranunculus alliariifolius (Rchb.) Simonk.
Ranunculus ambiguus Schur
Ranunculus elatior (Fr.) Ericsson
Ranunculus subflabellatus (Schur) Soó
Ranunculus uplandicus Ericsson

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.