Description

The Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens) is a flowering plant in the Buttercup family, native to Europe and the Pacific Northwest. It has attractive yellow flowers and stolons, running stems, which produce roots and new plants at the nodes. Creeping buttercup has three-lobed dark green, white-spotted leaves that grow out of the node. The stems also grow out of the nodes, and are quite hairy. Creeping buttercup can be differentiated from other buttercups because the flowers produced are often larger than many other Ranuncules (although in poor conditions the flowers may be as small as 10 mm diameter), there are stolons, and it is very low-lying.