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Ranunculus ficarioides Bory & Chaub.

Ranunculaceae · Greece, Kriti +4

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-11.5°C
Record low -18.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
23°C
Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
830mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
14–46DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
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  5. May
  6. Jun
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  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Ranunculus

Ranunculus is a large genus of about 1750 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ranunculus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (628 mm of 818 mm) takes 8 months, November to June. Mean temperature moves 21.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: May to December.

Rain

818 mm in the median year at the habitat, 628 mm of it November to June. Wettest month May at 100 mm, driest month August at 31 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 605 mm to 1,463 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 830 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 818 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 46 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -11.5 °C, the absolute minimum -18.7 °C, 5,423 frost nights in 44 years, 123.3 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -7.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -13.9 °C to 5.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 22.5 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -11.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 61% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -34 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Ranunculus ficarioides through the yearWarmest month August, mean daily high 23 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -7.5 °C; 818 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost34.0° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-18.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 14–46RH 54–61%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 13 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C1 / -5–92 / -4–96 / 0–1111 / 6–1416 / 12–1720 / 17–2122 / 20–2523 / 20–2619 / 17–2214 / 10–188 / 3–143 / -3–11
Night °C-8 / -14–5-7 / -12–5-3 / -8–61 / -3–96 / 1–1310 / 6–1713 / 9–2013 / 9–2010 / 6–175 / 1–14-1 / -6–10-6 / -12–7
Rain mm71 / 34–18566 / 44–14373 / 63–11292 / 43–151100 / 20–17375 / 4–16549 / 1–12031 / 2–11944 / 11–11366 / 52–13281 / 55–17070 / 36–197
DLI17 / 15–1923 / 21–2531 / 29–3437 / 34–4141 / 37–4745 / 40–5146 / 41–5141 / 36–4734 / 29–3925 / 21–2917 / 15–2114 / 12–17
RH %60 / 56–6360 / 57–6259 / 55–6159 / 51–6158 / 48–6256 / 45–6356 / 46–6355 / 47–6354 / 48–6158 / 52–6059 / 54–6161 / 56–63
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 13 grid cells holding the 13 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 965:4532 (41.725, 46.625). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -18.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -11.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 13 distinct grid cells holding 13 of the 13 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 965:4532 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 41.50_46.875, lapse-corrected -34 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1136 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5616114 (Ficaria ficarioides (Bory & Chaub.) Halácsy, 39 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeGreece, Kriti, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker39.406, 46.131 · in the densest population, 10 records (50% of those in range)
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 20 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 13 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 408 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5616114 (Ficaria ficarioides (Bory & Chaub.) Halácsy): Kew's file holds it as Ficaria ficarioides (Bory & Chaub.) Halácsy (synonym under Ranunculus ficarioides Bory & Chaub.); 39 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 20 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Veronica americana Veronica americana American speedwell Photo: CC BY, IDClaireBarbarea orthoceras Barbarea orthoceras American yellow-rocket Photo: CC0, author not statedMuscari aucheri Muscari aucheri Aucher-Éloy grape hyacinth Photo: CC BY-SA, Averater Ornithogalum oligophyllum Asparagaceae Scirpus microcarpus Scirpus microcarpus Panicled bulrush Photo: CC0, author not statedCorallorhiza maculata Corallorhiza maculata Spotted coralroot Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Ranunculus 111 in the reference

Ranunculus abnormis Ranunculus abnormis Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, Andre HosperRanunculus abortivus Ranunculus abortivus Early wood buttercup Photo: CC BY, Dustin SniderRanunculus aconitifolius Ranunculus aconitifolius Aconite-leaved Buttercup Photo: CC BY, Antoine ThivolleRanunculus acris Ranunculus acris Meadow buttercup Photo: CC BY, Jose Gutierrez HigaRanunculus aduncus Ranunculus aduncus Hooked Buttercup Photo: CC BY-SA, Francois MansourRanunculus alismifolius Ranunculus alismifolius Water-plantain buttercup Photo: CC BY, Ben CoonsRanunculus alpestris Ranunculus alpestris Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, EliasRanunculus amphitrichus Ranunculus amphitrichus Small river buttercup Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony EalesRanunculus amplexicaulis Ranunculus amplexicaulis Amplexicaule Buttercup Photo: CC BY, CenaidaRanunculus anemoneus Ranunculus anemoneus Anemone buttercup Photo: CC BY, Todd HuangRanunculus aquatilis Ranunculus aquatilis Common water-crowfoot Photo: CC BY, Evan M. RaskinRanunculus arvensis Ranunculus arvensis Corn buttercup Photo: CC BY, Daniel Cahen all 112 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ficaria verna subsp. ficarioides; Ficaria boryi; Ficaria peloponnesiaca; Ranunculus ficarioides var. gracilis; Ficaria ficarioides var. gracilis and 1 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
Bory & Chaub.
Native to
Greece, Kriti, North Caucasus +3
Wild records
20 in range · 8 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Ranunculus ficarioides Bory & Chaub. (plant_name_id 2523466), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 39 records of GBIF's key 5616114, Ficaria ficarioides (Bory & Chaub.) Halácsy (Kew's file holds it as Ficaria ficarioides (Bory & Chaub.) Halácsy (synonym under Ranunculus ficarioides Bory & Chaub.)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 41.50_46.875, lapse-corrected -34 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 712707-1, POWO 712707-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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