Ranunculus lingua L.

Greater spearwort (en), Renoncule langue (fr), Renoncule Langue (fr), Grande douve (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Stems ca. 75 cm, to 10 mm thick, strigose, few branched above, rooting near base. Basal leaf withering at anthesis. Lower stem leaves with petiole short, ca. 1.5 cm; blade linear-lanceolate, 10--15 × 0.7--2 cm, papery, appressed puberulent, base attenuate or rounded, margin entire, sparsely glandular. Upper stem leaves sessile. Compound monochasium terminal, corymbose, 3-or 4-flowered; bracts leaflike. Flowers 2.7--3.8 cm in diam. Pedicel 2--13.5 cm. Receptacle glabrous. Sepals 5, elliptic-ovate, ca. 7 mm, abaxially appressed puberulent. Petals 5, flabellate-obovate, 17--20 × 14--17 mm, nectary pit without a scale, apex truncate, often emarginate. Stamens numerous; anthers oblong. Aggregate fruit broadly ovoid, ca. 9 mm in diam. Achene obliquely obovoid, 2--3 × 1.5--1.8 mm, glabrous; style persistent, very short.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support aquatic
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread hydrochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.63 - 1.35
Root system creeping-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 6-9
Soil humidity 9-12
Soil texture 1-2
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-7

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Joint diseases (leaf), Rheumatism (unspecified), Vesicant (unspecified)
Human toxicity toxic (whole)
Animal toxicity toxic (whole)

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -35
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Ranunculus lingua habit picture by Gaël Covain (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Ranunculus lingua leaf picture by Patrick Nard (cc-by-sa)
Ranunculus lingua leaf picture by Olive Prov (cc-by-sa)
Ranunculus lingua leaf picture by Kai Best (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Ranunculus lingua flower picture by Kepa G. (cc-by-sa)
Ranunculus lingua flower picture by Olive Prov (cc-by-sa)
Ranunculus lingua flower picture by Lisa v.F. (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Ranunculus lingua fruit picture by Yoan MARTIN (cc-by-sa)
Ranunculus lingua fruit picture by Olive Prov (cc-by-sa)
Ranunculus lingua fruit picture by Alexander Baransky (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Ranunculus lingua world distribution map, present in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and South Africa

Conservation status

Ranunculus lingua threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:713102-1
WFO ID wfo-0000463023
COL ID 4RGTM
BDTFX ID 55117
INPN ID 117096
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Ranunculus schmidtii Ranunculus longifolius Ranunculus salicifolius Flammula lingua Ranunculus lingua