Buttercup

Buttercup family. Name: derives from the Latin word 'rana' - frog, and can be explained by the fact that many members of the genus live in water or nearby.

Description: up to 600 species are known, distributed worldwide, mainly in temperate and cold regions.

Annual and perennial rhizomatous or root-tuberous plants with erect, ascending, or prostrate stems, often rooting at the nodes. Leaves entire, spatulate, palmate- or pinnately-divided, arranged alternately. Flowers solitary or gathered into inflorescences, yellow, less often white or red, single or double. Fruit - an aggregate of achenes, seeds bare or hairy, flat or convex.

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