Ficaria verna Hudson
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Detail
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Botanical Name
- Ficaria verna Hudson
- Common Name
- Lesser Celandine
- Synonym(s)
- Ranunculus ficaria L.
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Ficaria verna Hudson
- Comments
- Recognition of varieties or subspecies is somewhat controversial, but a paper by Post, et als (J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3(1):193-209 (2009), found "five entities that can be reasonably referred to subspecies". Of these, two are reported from Virginia: ssp. verna (Fairfax) and ssp. calthifolia (Reichenb.) Nyman (Albemarle, Fairfax). Unfortunately, their map doesn't quite coincide with the specimen citations, and the Arlington and Chesapeake records were not part of the study.
- Habitat
- Floodplain forests, rich upland forests, and disturbed urban forests; a very shade-tolerant, invasive exotic. Locally common in the Potomac River and James River watersheds, and becoming so elsewhere. Based on recent records, this species is spreading rapidly and is often rampantly invasive.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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