Hooked Crowfoot, Blisterwort, Ranunculus recurvatus, Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, Hooked Crowfoot, Blisterwort

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Hooked Crowfoot	Ranunculus recurvatus Poir.	Buttercup	Woodland	Spring to Early Summer
Other names and notes	( Blisterwort). A plant of damp places, growing to 2 feet in height, with few branches and with small 5-part yellow flowers that have petals no longer than the green sepals, the petals slightly oblong. The stem leaves of three to five lobes that are deeply cleft, the lower ones becoming more egg shaped. All but the top leaves are stalked. Hairy stem. It grows on Lady's-slipper lane in the Woodland Garden. In an early spring, a bloom can occur as early as late April. The buttercup family was formerly called "Crowfoot."


Above, flower blooms in the first part of July, below an upper stem leaf.

Notes: While not listed on either Eloise Butler's list of indigenous plants, nor on Martha Crone's 1951 Garden census, it is now one of 4 buttercups in the Garden. It occurs in about 2/3rds of Minnesota, mostly the eastern half of the State. Absent in most of the western part of the state. In North America, its range is the eastern half of the continent. For additional notes and lore on buttercups, including the information Eloise Butler included in an article concerning buttercups, click here:

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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