- Ranunculus flammula L. - Lesser Spearwort - Ranunculaceae
© Stan Beesley
© Graham Day
© Ian Dodkins
(Map updated: March 2008)
A very common narrow-leaved buttercup of wet situations - wet meadows and pasture, fens, swamps, lake edges, canals and river banks etc. Rather like a small version of the greater spearwort (Ranunculus lingua), which is much rarer.
This species is very variable in size and habit. Some forms are more or less prostrate, rooting at the nodes and creeping; others are erect-growing.
All names: Ranunculus flammula L.
NBN Atlas mapping: Species account : NBN Atlas UK Species Observations database
iNaturalist: Species account : iNaturalist World Species Observations database