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Ranunculus baudotii
Brackish water-crowfoot is a buttercup that grows in shallow, slightly salty pools and ditches, mostly in coastal marshes and damp grasslands. It thrives with its roots in wet mud or shallow water and needs plenty of moisture.
Ranunculus baudotii, brackish water-crowfoot, is a flowering plant in the Ranunculaceae (buttercup family). As the name suggests, it tends to grow near the sea, typically in pools and ditches in coastal marshes that are slightly salty due to sea spray. It can also be found inland where there is some saline influence. It is not edible and has economic uses, but it is generally valued as a plant of conservation interest and an indicator of less agriculturally improved habitat.
This species grows mainly in coastal grasslands, where it occurs in slightly brackish seasonal pools. It can also be found in highly alkaline fens and even freshwater rivers and pools inland.
Members of the Ranunculaceae contain an irritating glycoside, ranunculin, from which the volatile substance protoanemonin is formed. Animals tend to avoid eating them because the taste is acrid, unless they are dried in hay or sprayed with herbicide.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ranunculus baudotii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
