Index / Search / Ranunculus muricatus
§1 Plant
Ranunculus muricatus L.
vernacular spinyfruit buttercup — species · Ranunculaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Ranunculaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ranunculus
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 162 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 162 counties across 12 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I ▾
California view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Clara 06085
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Tuolumne 06109
Florida view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 57 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
Mississippi view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 10 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Cameron 48061
- Chambers 48071
- Colorado 48089
- Dallas 48113
- Fayette 48149
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Kerr 48265
- Milam 48331
- Navarro 48349
- Orange 48361
- Sabine 48403
- San Jacinto 48407
- Travis 48453
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
Washington view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RAMU2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3033318 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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