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§1 Plant — species · Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus acris L.
vernacular tall buttercup
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ranunculaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ranunculus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 26 of 56 Montana counties.
Both · 26 counties
- Beaverhead 30001
- Carbon 30009
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Sanders 30089
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Teton 30099
- Wheatland 30107
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RAAC3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3033363 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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