Ranunculus illyricusL.

WFO wfo-0000460805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205245335
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203328170
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203311540
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Дима Орлов
fig. d Дима Орлов, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196280325
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196463134
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196329113
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. g Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196335491
Ranunculus illyricus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196259990

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Ranunculus illyricus is native: East Aegean Is., Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Sweden, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine East Aegean Is.IranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwedenTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Ranunculus illyricus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Sweden SWE
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 110 in flower of 132 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Ranunculus illyricus 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. 110 of 132 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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 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 alexeenkoi Grossh.
  • Ranunculus dalmaticus Grossh.
  • Ranunculus freynianus Velen.
  • Ranunculus meridionalis Grossh.
  • Ranunculus tenorei Jord.
  • Ranunculus tomentosus Moench

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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