Ranunculus populago

Cusick's buttercup

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Cusick's buttercup is a California native perennial found in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains and northern California Ranges in wet meadows, streams, and shallow water at elevations of 1,500 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white flowers with 5 to 6 petals 4 to 9 millimeters long. Growing 8 to 30 centimeters tall with erect or ascending stems that do not root at nodes, it has distinctive basal and lower cauline leaves 1.2 to 5.1 centimeters long and 1.5 to 2.9 centimeters wide. Its leaves are semicircular to heart-shaped with entire or slightly scalloped edges and widely acute to rounded tips, emerging from cordate or obtuse bases.

Habitat: Wet ground, shallow water, wet meadows, streams

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1500-2500 m

Bioregions: CaR, n SNH

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