Ranunculus platanifolius

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus platanifolius, photographed by Katrin Simon — fig. c Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203787711

Ranunculus platanifolius, photographed by Olivier Argagnon — fig. e Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202763335

Ranunculus platanifolius, photographed by kalopsia — fig. g kalopsia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144299761

Ranunculus platanifolius, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli — fig. h Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144496544

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ranunculus platanifolius, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Belgium	BGM
Bulgaria	BUL
Corse	COR
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
Norway	NOR
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Poland	POL
Romania	ROM
Sardegna	SAR
Spain	SPA
Sweden	SWE
Switzerland	SWI
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 123 in flower of 125 examined

100%

95%

Proportion of examined Ranunculus platanifolius 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	0	too few examined
Apr	1	1	too few examined
May	9	9	100%	70% to 100%
Jun	69	69	100%	95% to 100%
Jul	40	42	95%	84% to 99%
Aug	4	4	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Ranunculus platanifolius 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. 123 of 125 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 3 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.

Ranula platanifolia (L.) Fourr.
Ranunculus aconitifolius subsp. platanifolius Rikli
Ranunculus aconitifolius var. platanifolius Pacz.

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.

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