Ranunculus auricomus Goldilocks Buttercup C DD N
This is an apomictic species for which several hundred agamospecies (agamo = without gametes, therefore asexual reproduction) have been found on the continent according to Stace. There are probably another 100 or so waiting to be described in the British Isles but no-one has done it yet. This plant sometimes has a missing petal or two - occasionally no petals. It looks as though it has been damaged somehow but that is how it grows. This specimen was complete - something which isn't common.
Common in England and southern Scotland, Ranunculus auricomus is absent form large parts of Wales and northern Scotland. In Ireland it is commonest in the north.
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| Ranunculus auricomus Goldilocks Buttercup |
Cressbrookdale, Derbyshire 7th May 2009
Added on November 16th 2005, updated August 19th 2011