Ranunculus lanuginosusL.

WFO wfo-0000460853 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. a Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 203846097
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199195680
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Michal Honskus
fig. c Michal Honskus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197770400
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Dorte Stokholm
fig. d Dorte Stokholm, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195148709
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194281995
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Radosław Puchałka
fig. f Radosław Puchałka, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193101730
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Michael Andresek
fig. g Michael Andresek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192793858
Ranunculus lanuginosus, photographed by Petr Harant
fig. h Petr Harant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194270633

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Ranunculus lanuginosus is native: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Ranunculus lanuginosus, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR

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 258 in flower of 309 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Ranunculus lanuginosus 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. 258 of 309 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 2 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.

  • Ranunculastrum lanuginosum (L.) Fourr.
  • Ranunculus umbrosus Ten. & Guss.

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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