Ranunculus propinquus

Ranunculus propinquus is a perennial herbaceous buttercup of the Ranunculaceae family, widely distributed across northern Europe, Siberia, and adjacent arctic and subarctic regions. The plant grows from a short, stout rhizome and produces erect to ascending stems 15 to 50 centimetres tall, sparsely hairy with appressed or spreading hairs. Basal leaves are long-petiolate and deeply three- to five-lobed, with each segment further toothed or shallowly cleft; stem leaves are smaller, sessile or short-petiolate, and more deeply divided into narrow segments. Bright glossy yellow flowers, 15 to 25 millimetres across, occur singly or in few-flowered cymes on terminal peduncles; each has five waxy petals with a basal nectary, five reflexed or spreading sepals, and numerous stamens and carpels. Achenes are small, smooth or finely hairy, with a short curved beak. It favours moist meadows, open woodland, and streamsides on a range of soils.