Ranunculus fluitans

Ranunculus fluitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Ranunculus
Species: R. fluitans
Binomial name
Ranunculus fluitans
L.

Ranunculus fluitans (River water crowfoot) is a species of buttercup. It is a perennial and bushy in favourable conditions when it can grow to 6m height[1]

A Ranunculus fluitans community or Ranunculion fluitantis defines a British plant community comprising stands of submerged vegetation dominated by clumps of Crowfoot[1]

References

  1. ^ a b J. S. Rodwell; British Plant Communities: Woodlands and Scrub Cambridge University Press, 1990 ISBN 0-521-62718-4