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Ranunculus is a genus of about 1,700 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae. [1] Members of the genus include the buttercups , spearworts and water crowfoots . Contents
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae , the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots .
Ranunculaceae (/ r ə n ʌ ŋ k j uː ˈ l eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, [2] distributed worldwide. The largest genera are Ranunculus (600 species), Delphinium (365), Thalictrum (330 ...
Ranunculus / r æ ˈ n ʌ ŋ k j ʊ l ə s / [3] is a large genus of about 1750 species [1] [2] of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae.Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots.
Thalictrum (/ θ ə ˈ l ɪ k t r ə m /) is a genus of 120-200 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native mostly to temperate regions. [1] Meadow-rue is a common name for plants in this genus.
The genus name Nigella is a diminutive of the Latin niger "black", referring to the seed color. [6] [7] The specific epithet sativa means "cultivated".[6]In English, Nigella sativa and its seed are variously called black caraway, black seed, black cumin, fennel flower, nigella, nutmeg flower, Roman coriander, [3] [6] black onion seed [8] and kalonji.
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Anemonoides is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.Plants of the genus are native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, on the continents of North America, Europe, and Asia. [1]