Ranunculaceae
(Buttercup Family)
Habit
- mostly herbs or vines
Leaves
- simple or
compound, with or without
stipules
Flowers
- solitary or
racemose; mostly
perfect
Perianth
- mostly of 2
whorls (
sepals mostly
petaloid)
Stamens
- with distinct
filaments
Carpels
-
free;
ovary superior, with 5-many
carpels and mostly
marginal placentation
Fruit
- a cluster of
achenes or
follicles
Diversity
- 50 genera / ca. 2,000 species
Distribution
- temperate and
boreal
Economics
- cultivated ornamentals: columbine, larkspur, monkshood, buttercup, windflower; larkspur and monkshood are poisonous and sometimes cause death in livestock....
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