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Ranunculaceae
Field buttercup
Ranunculus arvensis
Also known as Tall buttercup, Meadow buttercup, Common buttercup, Ranunculus curvirostratus
Native Plants · Wildflower · Buttercup · Meadow · Annual · Ranunculus · Yellow Flower · Field Plant · Pollinator · Low Maintenance · Naturalized
Field buttercup is a hardy annual or short-lived perennial suited to open fields, meadow gardens, and disturbed ground in full sun to partial shade. It requires average moisture and minimal care, naturalizing readily in suitable conditions. It is best grown as part of a wildflower mix rather than a formal border planting.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; keep soil evenly moist but not saturated · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 7.5–8
- Temperature
- -20°F to 90°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Arkansas, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Chile Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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