Ranunculus propinquusC.A.Mey.

WFO wfo-0001129266 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. a Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-10 / obs. 128143107
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. b Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100191340
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. c Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191855355
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. d Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201167385
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. e Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93934837
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. f Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90587936
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. g Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90587028
Ranunculus propinquus, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. h Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90586868

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Ranunculus propinquus is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Sakhalin, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiSakhalinTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaEast European RussiaFinlandIcelandIrelandNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorway Føroyar
Native distribution of Ranunculus propinquus, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
Great Britain GRB
Iceland ICE
Ireland IRE
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 748 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -27.4 °C -25.6 °C -16.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 15.8 °C 23.1 °C 24.3 °C
Annual rainfall 330 mm 478 mm 1,054 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 13 mm 35 mm 133 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 748 research-grade observations of Ranunculus propinquus 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.

Also published as 14 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 acris f. villosus Drabble
  • Ranunculus acris var. propinquus (C.A.Mey.) Maxim.
  • Ranunculus acris var. stevenii (Andrz.) Regel
  • Ranunculus acris var. villosus (Drabble) S.M.Coles
  • Ranunculus borealis Trautv.
  • Ranunculus glabriusculus Rupr.
  • Ranunculus japonicus var. pratensis Kitag.
  • Ranunculus japonicus var. pratensis (Kitag.) Tamura
  • Ranunculus japonicus var. propinquus (C.A.Mey.) W.T.Wang
  • Ranunculus lanuginosaeformis Selin ex Fellm.
  • Ranunculus propinquus var. borealis (Trautv.) Luferov
  • Ranunculus pseudograndis (Vorosch.) Luferov
  • Ranunculus subangustifidus (Luferov) Luferov
  • Ranunculus subborealis Tzvelev

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.

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.