Lesser celandine
Ficaria verna
Poisonous plant: do not eat any part of it.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Ficaria verna
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Ranunculales
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Continent
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Habitat
- Forest, Meadow
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Blooms in
- Spring
- Use
- No special use
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- The poet William Wordsworth loved it so much that he wrote three poems about it.
- By early summer its leaves wither, and it spends the rest of the year underground as small tubers.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q157557 · All plants · All entries