Ranunculus reflexus

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ranunculus reflexus, photographed by naturewatchwidow — fig. b naturewatchwidow, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191392131

Ranunculus reflexus, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. c Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183673984

Ranunculus reflexus, photographed by Paul Bell-Butler — fig. h Paul Bell-Butler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175595991

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Ranunculus reflexus, 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
Chatham Is.	CTM	AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand North	NZN
New Zealand South	NZS

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 255 in flower of 311 examined

95%

81%

40%

25%

17%

72%

94%

Proportion of examined Ranunculus reflexus in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	75	79	95%	88% to 98%
Feb	13	16	81%	57% to 93%
Mar	2	5	40%	12% to 77%
Apr	0	10	0%	0% to 28%
May	2	8	25%	7% to 59%
Jun	0	2	too few examined
Jul	1	6	17%	3% to 56%
Aug	1	4	too few examined
Sep	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Oct	13	18	72%	49% to 88%
Nov	61	65	94%	85% to 98%
Dec	87	93	94%	87% to 97%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Ranunculus reflexus 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. 255 of 311 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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.

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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