Buttercup family : RANUNCULACEAE (MAGNOLIIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Anemone coronaria Poppy Anenome Sydney, August 2006	Anemone hupehensis cultivar Bowles Pink Wyee, March 2007	Aquilegia vulgaris Columbine Sydney, August 2006	Caltha introloba Alpine Marsh-Marigold 1986 Australia Post
Clematis aristata Traveller's Joy Wyee, November 2006	Clematis glycinoides Forest Clematis Coffs Harbour, July 2007	Clematis microphylla Clematis Sydney, October 2006	Clematis montana Small-leaved Clematis Pine Plains Station, Victoria (Photo: courtesy of the Laura Levens)
Delphinium elatum Larkspur Sydney, November 2006	Delphinium requienii French Larkspur Melbourne, December 2007 specimen: courtesy of Sara Miranda	Nigella damascena Love in a Mist Sydney, December 2006	Helleborus foetidus Dungwort Melbourne, December 2007 specimen: courtesy of Sara Miranda
Helleborus x Hellebore Wyee, August 2007	Paeonia lactiflora Peony Sydney, November 2006	Ranunculus amphitrichus Water Buttercup Wyee, February 2007	Ranunculus asiaticus Turban Buttercup Sydney, October 2008

Ranunculus lappaceus Australian Buttercup Sydney, October 2008

Ranunculus repens Creeping Buttercup Sydney, October 2008

The caterpillars of some Australian Moths feed on plants in RANUNCULACEAE including:

Phrissogonus laticostata

Chrysolarentia decisaria

Cryptoptila immersana

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013)