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Creeping Buttercup"Ranúnculo-rasteiro"

Ranunculus repens

Description:

spotted in the little river that pass 20m from my back yard http://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&...

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18 Comments

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

Thanks Meik and Emma for the interest in my humble Rannuculus spotting :)
Emma i dont know exactely the tree species,it's natural of this area and it was used to guide the vine plants of the famous green wine tradicional of Minho(my region,like your california:)as sown i have the time,tommorow morning maiby i'll spott the tree,and check the id in my tree guide,i do not knowed that the Rannuculus plant was so interesting from the botanical point of vue.Fantastic it seems that i'am going to find great things in this place:)in the other spotting you can se in one of the photos more Rannuculus surrounded by diferents trees

Meik
Meik 12 years ago

I agree, it seems to be R. repens.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Antonio,do you know what kind of trees those are?
To find Rannuculus in their natural habitat is awesome and that to the old world Rannucles.Lovely!

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

it's a Ranunculus repens:)i make the respective changes,thanks very much Emma

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Could b e "Ranunculus repens"

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

i agree to :)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

I looked at Meiks link and i agree that it is Rannuculus.The leaves also look like Rannuculus.

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

Meik,like i told yesterday i pass there a few hours ago to check the yellow milk sap test and you are rigth is not chelidonium majus.i have more photos and i tried to load them in this spotting but the sistem does not permit so i'am going to load a new spotting with the new photos,it's a plant spreaded allover this area,i have several photos of all the parts of the plant and flowersi'll load it tonigth,thanks for the concern

Meik
Meik 12 years ago

This doesn't look like Chelidonium majus to me. Have a look at the petals, C. majus has 4 and the one in your picture seems to have at least five. When you rip apart one of C. majus leaves there should be yellow milky sap leaking from he wound, you could check this.
I also checked on Ranunculus bulbosus. I think its's something else, because R. bulbosus flowers from May to July. Do you have more detailed photos of the flower, upper and lower leaves?

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

Binomial name Chelidonium majus

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

Meik,if you follow the link i put the plant is from ranunculus genus,i copy the Scientific classification from the id link that the person who id it gave me
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Chelidonium
Species: C. majus
Binomial name

VivBraznell
VivBraznell 12 years ago

Think Meik is correct with Ranunculus family . Perfect conditions for this group of plants

Meik
Meik 12 years ago

Antonio, I think this one might belong to the genus Ranunculus, have a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus

Probably Ranunculus bulbosus.

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

Sarah and Emma i have a spotting in other place,that seem to me is the same plant the one who's seive is yellow,today,i'am going to check ,make more photos of the interior of the flower and of the leaves to,and check the yellow seiva(internal fluids)is this spotting,i dont know if the link i put is correctly loaded:(
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/947...

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

Sarah ,it does look like Prairie Coreopsis.

AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 12 years ago

@Thanks sarah,i'll check the tip for the id
@thanks Emma,it's a new door that i'am going to open,a special reserve that i saved for the reasons that i told you,but that from now one i'll fully explore,yesterday walk in the place and the conversation that i have here with you make my decision,my "wacko" neighbour's are going to have a lot of small talk to do,in a daily bases :)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

lovely backyard!

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

Beautiful scenery!!
Not quite sure about the flower. Maybe a coreopsis?

Braga, Portugal

Spotted on Apr 2, 2012
Submitted on Apr 3, 2012

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