Annotated List of the Wild Flowers 

 of California 



BUTTERCUP FAMILY RANUNCULACEAE 



1. Traveller's Joy 

 Virgin's Bowers 

 2. 

 3. 

 4. 



5. Wind-Flowers 

 6. 

 7. 

 8. Meadow Rues 



9. Mouse-tail 

 10. 



11. Water Buttercups 

 12. 



13. Land Buttercup 



14. Pink Buttercup 



15. Creeping Buttercup 



16. 

 17. 



18. 



19. Saline Buttercup 



20. Foothill Butercup 



21. Alpine Buttercup 



22. California Buttercup 



23. Eastern Buttercup 



24. Giant Buttercup 



25. Nelson's Buttercup 



26. Rough-seeded Butter- 



cup 



Clematis ligusticifolia 

 Clematis lasiantha 

 Clematis pauciflora 

 Clematis verticillaris 

 Anemone occidentalis 

 Anemone multifida 

 Anemone nemorosa 

 Thalictrum polycarpum 

 et al. 



Myosurus minimus 

 Myosurus aristatus 



Ranunculus hederaceus 

 Ranunculus aquatalis 



Ranunculus hystriculus 

 Ranunculus Andersonii 



Ranunculus Flammula 



var. reptans 

 Ranunculus alismaefolius 

 Ranunculus alismaefolius 



var. alismellus 

 Ranunculus trachysper- 



mus var. Lindheimeri 

 Ranunculus Cymbalaria 

 Ranunculus glaberrimus 

 Ranunculus oxynotus 

 Ranunculus californicus 



Ranunculus repens 

 Ranunculus macranthus 



Ranunculus Nelsonii 



var. tenellus 

 Ranunculus hebecarpus 



General throughout the 

 State, having much beauty 

 both in flower and seed. 

 Vines. 



High mountains and red- 

 woods. 



Coast and Sierras, delicate, 

 graceful herbs with leaves 

 resembling maiden hair 

 fern. 



Wet, frequently alkaline 

 soils of the Great Interior 

 valley, and beneath sage- 

 brush, Sierra Valley. 

 Small plants with a con- 

 spicuous elongated recep- 

 tacle resembling a mouse's 

 tail. 



Aquatic, extremely variable 

 and often segregated into 

 many closely allied spe- 

 cies or varieties. 



Foothills Sierras. Resembles 

 an Anemone. 



Eastern Sierras, pinkish 

 blossoms and unike a but- 

 tercup. An interesting 

 plant. Perennial. 



Sea level to 6,000 feet. 



Lower altitudes. 

 Sierras. 



Napa Valley 



Wet saline soils. 



Eastern Sierras. 



Near snow, Sierras. 



Most common species in the 



State, especially coast 



hills. 

 Introduced. 

 Near the coast, sometimes 



five feet high. 

 Sierra Nevada — Yosemite. 



Coast ranges and foothills 

 of Sierras. 



