Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
Ranunculales
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots. It is the most basal clade in this group; in other words, it is sister to the remaining eudicots. Widely known members include poppies, barberries, and buttercups.
7 branches of this order, most-observed first
buttercup family
familyRanunculaceae
Poppy Family
familyPapaveraceae
barberry family
familyBerberidaceae
moonseed family
familyMenispermaceae
zabala family
familyLardizabalaceae
euptelea family
familyEupteleaceae
circaeaster family
familyCircaeasteraceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48232.