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Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna Family: Ranunculaceae
Lesser Celandine
Ficaria verna
(Ranunculus ficaria)

Flowering time: February-May. Perennial. Native

Can be locally abundant throughout most of Britain and Ireland on damp soils in woods, gardens and fields and on banks and roadsides.

Yellow flowers with 8-10 petals on long, ascending flower stalks. Many minutely hairy achenes. The glossy hairless leaves are long-stalked, cordate and mainly basal. Creeping, rooting stems. The rootstock is a mass of white tubers.


Lesser Celandine, Ranunculus ficaria, Ficaria verna
Lesser Celandine, Ranunculus ficaria, Ficaria verna
Parkstone, Dorset. April 2013

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