Ranunculus canus

Great valley buttercup

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Great valley buttercup is a California native perennial herb found in valley and foothill grasslands at elevations near ground level. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces small white to yellow flowers 6 to 12 millimeters long with delicate, reflexed sepals. Growing with erect to somewhat decumbent stems 11 to 65 centimeters tall, it develops a distinctive branching structure. Its basal and lower stem leaves are broadly ovate, three-parted with deeply lobed segments, creating a complex and intricate leaf pattern. The fruits are small disk-like structures with a curved, short beak, characteristic of buttercup species.

California counties: Tulare, Kern, Butte, Shasta, Amador, Glenn, Fresno, Trinity, Monterey, San Bernardino, Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento, Sutter, Merced, San Benito, Yolo, Tehama, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Colusa, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Yuba, San Diego, Solano, El Dorado, Lassen, Napa, Calaveras, Sonoma, Santa Clara, Tuolumne, Lake, Siskiyou, Placer, Madera

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.