Small-flowered Buttercup Ranunculus parviflorus Fearbán beag Family: Ranunculaceae Flowering time: May-August. Annual. Probably introduced. Small pale-yellow flowers with down-turned sepals on furrowed flower stalks, followed by fruit with hooked spines. Hairy lower leaves with 3-5 toothed lobes, the upper leaves simple or oblong-lobed. A very small, inconspicuous plant with a low spreading growth habitat. Height to 20cm Rare casual, decreasing on disturbed neutral or calcareous soils on dry banks, roadsides, cliff edges, waste and cultivated ground. Most frequent in south-east Ireland

Small-flowered Buttercup, , Fearbán beag