Ranunculaceae
Mousetail
Ranunculus minimus
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Genus
- Ranunculus
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Common names
By language (25)
- Arabic
- ذيل الفأر الأوروبي, ذيل الفأر الشورتي, ذيل الفأر الصغير, ذيل الفأر العادي, ذيل الفأر المرهف, ذيل الفار
- arz
- ذيل الفار الصغير
- Asturian
- Rau de raposa
- Belarusian
- Мышахвоснік маленькі
- Bulgarian
- Малка миша опашка
- Czech
- Myší ocásek nejmenší
- Dutch
- Muizenstaart
- English
- Mousetail, Tiny mousetail
- Estonian
- Väike hiiresaba
- Finnish
- Hiirenhäntä, Hentohiirenhäntä
- French
- Ratoncule
- Georgian
- Თაგვიკუდა
- German
- Kleiner Mäuseschwanz, Kleines Mäuseschwänzchen, Mäuseschwanz, Mäuseschwänzchen, Zwergmäuseschwanz
- hsb
- Najmjeńša myšowka
- Hungarian
- Pici egérfarkfű
- Latvian
- Sīkā peļastīte
- Lithuanian
- Mažoji strugena
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Muserumpe
- Persian
- دم موشک
- Polish
- Mysiurek drobny
- Russian
- Мышехвостник маленький, Мышехвостник малый
- Slovenian
- Navadna malorepka
- Swedish
- Råttsvans, Mustippa
- Ukrainian
- Мишачий хвіст малий
- Welsh
- Cynffon y llygoden
Synonyms
- Myosurus apetalus var. lepturus A.Gray
- Myosurus aristatus var. lepturus (A.Gray) Jeps.
- Myosurus cauda-muris Neck.
- Myosurus europaea Gray
- Myosurus lepturus Howell
- Myosurus major Greene
- Myosurus minimus L.
- Myosurus minimus subsp. major (Greene) G.R.Campb.
- Myosurus minimus subsp. pringlei (Huth) G.R.Campb.
- Myosurus minimus var. interior B.Boivin
- Myosurus minimus var. major (Greene) K.C.Davis
- Myosurus minimus var. shortii (Raf.) Huth
- Myosurus prenglii Huth
- Myosurus shortii Raf.
- Myosurus tenellus Greene
- Myosurus tenellus var. amphioxys Greene
Flowers
- In flower
- April to May (from 226 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:02, 16 June 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Konshau Duman, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Konshau Duman, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Thomas Gyselinck, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Zoltán Nagy, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alex Heyman, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Daniel, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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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). About our plant data.