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Meadow Buttercup

Ranunculus acris

20,980Records since 2000
JunePeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan51
Feb67
Mar281
Apr1,638
May4,019
Jun4,693
Jul3,102
Aug1,907
Sep1,119
Oct446
Nov205
Dec65

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,554
2Highland Scotland1,034
3Argyll and Bute Scotland701
4Herefordshire, County of England637
5North Yorkshire England561
6Sefton England538
7Cumbria England335
8Norfolk England319
9Powys Wales295
10Oxfordshire England283
11Sheffield England268
12Perth and Kinross Scotland258
13Telford and Wrekin England252
14Pembrokeshire Wales249
15Devon England209
15,607 England3,321 Scotland1,163 Wales138 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
20,980
Peak month
June
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Ranunculus acris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
77,524
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Ranunculus
Name with authority
Ranunculus acris L.
Contributing datasets
62

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157563 · GBIF 3033363