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Ranunculus petiolaris
Latin American buttercup
Tier 2 Difficulty: medium Water: low Light: full_sun
Temperature
5–32 °C
Hardiness
Zone 4–8
Observations
3
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Full sun
The Greater creeping spearwort prefers to be situated in a location where it can enjoy the full day's sunlight. It can also tolerate a position with partial shade, however, it is not preferable. Its natural growing conditions indicate a preference for sunny areas. Nevertheless, too much sunlight may cause stress to the plant, much like inadequate light can restrict its development.
Ideal: Full sun
🌡️ Temperature 5–32.2°C
The Greater creeping spearwort is native to temperate climate zones. It flourishes best in temperature ranges from 41 to 89.6 °F (5 to 32 ℃). Seasonal temperature changes may be necessary to mimic its original habitat conditions.
Ideal temperature: 5–32.2°C
💨 Humidity
Humidity:
🪴 Soil
🌱 Fertilizer
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Herb
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Ranunculus
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 4-8
- Mature Height
- 3 cm to 25 cm
- Mature Spread
- 30 cm
- Leaf Color
- Green
- Leaf Type
- Deciduous
- Flower Color
- Yellow
- Flower Size
- 2.54 cm
- Bloom Time
- Late spring, Summer, Early fall, Mid fall
- Planting Time
- Spring
- Harvest Time
- Mid summer, Late summer, Fall, Early winter
- Native Area
- India, Austria, Turkey, Sweden, Slovakia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Morocco, Belarus, Russia, Germany, Iceland, Estonia, Romania, Latvia, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Armenia, Poland, Greece, Ukraine, Serbia, Lithuania, Norway, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, United Kingdom, Hungary, Algeria, Azerbaijan
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en Latin American buttercup