Spermatophytes Flowering Plants 



Angiospermae Angiosperms 



Dicotyledons 



Ranales Buttercup Order 



Ranunculaceae — Buttercup Family 



Herbs or climbing shrubs; sepals 3-15, petals 0-15, stamens 5-many, pistil 1-many, fruit an 

 achene, follicle or berry; Sower apocarpous, apopetalons or apetalous, hypogynous, usually regular. 



1. 1 ! ^ular 



a. Climbing vine Clematis 



b. Erect herbs 



(1) Petals pi en much smaller than the sepals 



(a) Petals conspicuous, yellow Ranunculus 



(b) Petals much smaller than the colored sepals 



\. Sepals whitish; leaves palmately divide. 1 HelUboruS 



y. Sepals bluish; leaves finely cut lla 



(2) Petals absent; ilored Anemone 



2. Flowers irregular 



a. Upper sepal hood like \itum 



b. Upper sepal funnel like or spurred Delphinium 



Clematis — Virgin's Bower, Clematis 



(Gr. klematis, a climbing plant) 



1. Leaflets toothed ; flowering in summer C. virginidna 



2. Leaflets entire; flowering in autumn ('. paniculdta 



. Ranunculus — Buttercup, Crowfoot 



i I. at. ranunculus, a little f i oy, perhaps from its habitat) 



1. Leaves lobed or cut 



a. Flowers yellow 



(1) flowers 1-3 cm. wide 



(a) flowers 1-2 cm. wide; stems smooth R. scelerdtus 



(b) Flowers 2 -3 cm. wide; stems hairy R. dcris 



(2) Flowers 4-5 cm. wide, often double R. asidticus 



b. flowers white R. aconitifdlius 



2. Leaves not lobed 



a. Leaves entire, oblong or lanceolate R. fldmmula 



b. Leaves crenate, rounded R. abortivus 



Helleborus — Hellebore, Christmas Rose 



(Gr. helleboros, hellebore, of ancient repute as a iihmP 

 Leaves lobed; flowers white to pink //. nigjr 



Nigella — Ragged Lady, Maid-in-a-Mist 



(I. at. niger. black, -ella, small, from the black s- 

 - finely dissected, the upper enclosing the flower -V. iamascina 



Anemone — Anemone, Wind (lower 



(.Gr. anemone, shaken by the wind, heme windflower) 



1. Stamens blue; peduncles 1-2 A. ijrondria 



2. Stamens yellow; peduncles 2 : ./. jap&nica 



