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Ranunculus ficaria
Yellow flowers with 8-10 petals and usually 3 sepals. Long ascending flower stalks. Many minutely hairy achenes. Glossy hairless leaves, long-stalked, cordate, mainly basal. Creeping, rooting stems. Rootstock is mass of white tubers.
Frequent throughout Ireland and can be locally abundant. Prefers damp soils, woods, roadsides, fields.
Aran Islands
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