Ranunculaceae
High northern buttercup
Ranunculus hyperboreus
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Genus
- Ranunculus
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Common names
By language (5)
- English
- High northern buttercup
- Finnish
- Pohjanleinikki
- Icelandic
- Trefjasóley
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Setersoleie
- Swedish
- Jordranunkel
Synonyms
- Ranunculus forskoehlii DC.
- Ranunculus hyperboreus subsp. hyperboreus
- Ranunculus hyperboreus subsp. intertextus (Greene) B.M.Kapoor & Á.Löve
- Ranunculus hyperboreus subsp. samojedorum (Rupr.) Hultén
- Ranunculus hyperboreus var. hyperboreus
- Ranunculus hyperboreus var. intertextus (Greene) B.Boivin
- Ranunculus hyperboreus var. multifidus (G.Don) Hook.f. & Thomson
- Ranunculus hyperboreus var. samojedorum Perf.
- Ranunculus hyperboreus var. tricrenatus Rupr.
- Ranunculus hyperboreus var. turquetilianus Polunin
- Ranunculus intertextus Greene
- Ranunculus multifidus Pursh
- Ranunculus natans var. intertextus (Greene) L.D.Benson
- Ranunculus purshii var. multifidus G.Don
- Ranunculus radicans var. multifidus (G.Don) Regel
Flowers
- In flower
- July to August (from 31 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Greenland: native, Lower 48 states: native
Toxicity: Moderate, as listed by the USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29). USDA rates how toxic a plant is to people or livestock; it is not a pet-safety rating, so ask a vet or poison line if a pet or child ate it.
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Ingvild Riska, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ingvild Riska, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ingvild Riska, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ingvild Riska, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist Photo: Eelco Folkertsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Игорь Загребин, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: fmunoz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Ragnhild&Neil Crawford from Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.