Ranunculus aconitifolius
speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Ranunculus aconitifolius's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility54 734 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI4 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics8 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Ranunculus aconitifolius, the aconite-leaf buttercup or bachelor's buttons, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to central Europe. Growing to 60 cm high by 40 cm broad, this herbaceous perennial has slightly hairy palmate leaves up to 20 cm long, and loose panicles of white, saucer-shaped flowers in spring. This species forms clumps, sometimes large colonies in moist places in mountains, meadows, edges of ditches and streams. The Latin specific epithet aconitifolius means “with leaves resembling aconite”, a reference to the related genus Aconitum, the monkshoods. The double-flowered cultivar R. aconitifolius 'Flore Pleno' (fair maids of France, fair maids of Kent) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology8
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment5
Physiology & chemistry6
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Ranunculus aconitifolius across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Documented compounds1 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protoanemonin | present | LOTUS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Ranunculus aconitifolius has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Ranunculus aconitifolius carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 1623×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +5
2n 144×CCDB · fl-europaea · CCDB · book-ipcn67-71 · CCDB · Cave1956supp +1
n 87×CCDB · ita-fl · CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl +1
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
How it livedPBDB
Record type54 734 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions40 of 87 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Salzburg, AT | 213 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 119 |
| BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record | 68 |
| Bern, CH | 48 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 43 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 42 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 40 |
| LDlocation not on record | 36 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 28 |
| MAlocation not on record | 27 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 26 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 23 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 22 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 21 |
| Glarus, CH | 13 |
| Wlocation not on record | 13 |
| Porrentruy, CH | 12 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 11 |
| BClocation not on record | 11 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 10 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 10 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 10 |
| Barcelona, ES | 10 |
| Mlocation not on record | 9 |
| Görlitz, DE | 9 |
| BDBClocation not on record | 9 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 9 |
| Vitoria, ES | 9 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 8 |
| SZUlocation not on record | 7 |
| Herb. BBGlocation not on record | 7 |
| Uppsala, SE | 6 |
| GBS RAN - Glavny Botanichesky Sad Rossijskoj Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 6 |
| Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record | 5 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 5 |
| Trondheim, NO | 5 |
| Sion, CH | 5 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 5 |
| Paris, FR | 5 |
| Dresden, DE | 5 |
| Zürich, CH | 4 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 4 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 4 |
| Berlin, DE | 3 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bourges, FR | 3 |
| Olocation not on record | 3 |
| Uniwersytet Warszawskilocation not on record | 3 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 2 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 2 |
| Boumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Monastir, TN | 2 |
| Bronx, US | 2 |
| Podgorica, ME | 2 |
| H-Meierottlocation not on record | 2 |
| Madrid, ES | 2 |
| València, ES | 2 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 2 |
| Bergen, NO | 2 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 2 |
| nbflocation not on record | 2 |
| Auckland, NZ | 1 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
| Pamplona, ES | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Davenport, US | 1 |
| Tilburg, NL | 1 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherovlocation not on record | 1 |
| Granada, ES | 1 |
| Sede di Via Giorgio La Pira del Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze | Via Giorgio La Pira headquarter of the Natural History Museum in Florencelocation not on record | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Salvador, BR | 1 |
| Musée des Confluenceslocation not on record | 1 |
| PRClocation not on record | 1 |
| Boise, US | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| Sant Julià de Lòria, AD | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Winterthur, CH | 1 |
| Fulda, DE | 1 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Ranunculus aconitifolius was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.