Order

Ranunculales (Buttercups, poppies, and allies)

Ranunculus californicus. Photo: (c) Josh*m, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots. It is the most basal clade in this group; in other words, it is sister to the remaining eudicots. Widely known members include poppies, barberries, and buttercups.

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Subtaxa

Where in Humboldt



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