Ranunculus bulbosus Bulbous Buttercup

A perennial buttercup which grows in well-drained, mesotrophic or nutrient-poor soils. It is most common in neutral or base-rich grasslands, including sand dunes and roadside verges, where it can be the dominant buttercup species. It is widespread and common throughout much of Britain and Ireland, but largely lowland in its local distributions. It is superficially similar to Creeping Buttercup but the swollen, bulbous stem base and the deflexed sepals are quite ditinctive. It has a mostly coastal distribution in West Glamorgan with some scattered inland records in places such as forest roads that have been dressed with limestone gravel. Interestingly there are increasing numbers of  records of a winter-flowering form that is widespread in roadside verges in some parts of the country and which may have originated from sown grass mixtures.

Native