Common Meadow Buttercup

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Western Isles wildflowers is a collection of information about our Hebridean wildflowers including identification hints, traditional herbal uses and general plant lore.

Ranaculus acris

Gaelic name: Buidheag an t-Samhraidh

Wildflowers - Common Meadow Buttercup

Likes dunes machair and damp grassland.
The landscape of the Lewis lower grassland becomes yellow with buttercups in high summer.

Stems 1 - 3 feet tall.
Does not root along the stem like strawberry runners (that one is probably creeping buttercup)

Common Meadow Buttercup is a member of the Ranunculae - the buttercup family .
Ranunculus is Latin for "little frog", members of this plant family also like wet habitats and are well represented here in the Western Isles!