Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Aconitum columbianum columbianum. Photo: (c) Aaron Lincoln, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Ranunculaceae (buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus “little frog”, from rāna “frog”) is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide.