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Larkspur

A genus of ranunculaceous plants Delphinium having showy flowers and a spurred calyx They are natives of the North Temperate zone The commonest larkspur of the gardens is Delphinium Consolida The flower of the bee larkspur Delphinium elatum has two petals bearded with yellow hairs and looks not unlike a bee...


Liverwort

A ranunculaceous plant Anemone Hepatica with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three lobed leaf called also squirrel cups...


Mousetail

A genus of ranunculaceous plants Myosurus in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes and so resembles the tail of a mouse...


Orangeroot

An American ranunculaceous plant Hidrastis Canadensis having a yellow tuberous root also called yellowroot golden seal etc...


Peony

A plant and its flower of the ranunculaceous genus Paeligonia Of the four or five species one is a shrub the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers often double in cultivation...


Pulsatilla

A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower This genus is now merged in Anemone Some species as Anemone Pulsatilla Anemone pratensis and Anemone patens are used medicinally...


Ranal

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants...


Ranunculaceous

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants Ranunculaceaelig of which the buttercup is the type and which includes also the virgins bower the monkshood larkspur anemone meadow rue and peony...


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