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
Parkstone, Dorset. April 2013