Buttercup Gramineo (Ranunculus gramineus)
Description
“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: entire plant esp. leaves The Buttercup gramineo (scientific name Ranunculus gramineus L. , 1753 ) is a plant of the family of Ranunculaceae of Italian spontaneous flora. The generic name ( Ranunculus ), passing through the Latin , comes from the Greek Batrachion , and means frog (it is Pliny writer and Latin naturalist, who informs us of this etymology ) as many species of this genus prefer wetlands , shady and swampy, natural habitat of amphibians . The specific name ( gramineus ) derives from the Latin and means "similar to grass" or "herbaceous" . The currently accepted scientific binomial (Ranunculus gramineus ) was proposed by Carl von Linné (1707-1778), a Swedish biologist and writer, considered the father of the modern scientific classification of living organisms, in the publication Species Plantarum of 1753. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, whose average height ranges between 10 and 40 cm. The appearance of the plant is glaucous . It is also called hemicriptophyte scaposa ( H scap ), which is a plant with buds wintering at ground level and protected by litter or snow; it is also provided with a flowering axis erected with few leaves. The whole plant is fundamentally glabrous and free of oil cells.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Ranunculales
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Family: Ranunculaceae
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Genus: Ranunculus
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