Lesser celandine
Ranunculus ficaria L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 20 cm
Ranunculaceae
Also called Fig-root buttercup, Fig buttercup, FICVER
Formerly Ficaria verna
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canary Is., Europe to Medit. and KazakhstanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 23 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 25–25 cm; Plants For A Future 0.2–0.2 m
- Spread
- 20 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Gewoon speenkruid, Speenkruid
- French
- Ficaire printanière, Ficaire, Ficaire fausse-renoncule
- German
- Scharbockskraut
- Catalan
- gatassa
- Finnish
- mukulaleinikki
- Russian
- Чистяк весенний
- Hebrew
- נורית הלב
- Italian
- ranuncolo favagello
- Danish
- Vorterod, Almindelig Vorterod
- Polish
- Ziarnopłon wiosenny
- Estonian
- kanakoole, harilik kanakoole
- Czech
- orsej jarní
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ranunculus ficaria (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.