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Lesser celandine. Margaret Bartonlesser celandine

Ranunculus ficaria

  • One of the first woodland flowers of the year
     
  • The flowers are shiny yellow with eight to twelve petals
     
  • The leaves are heart-shaped.
     

Where found

Damp woodland paths and tracks as well as on stream banks and in ditches. It grows well in the shade of hedgerows too.
 

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You can help scientists monitor the effect of climate change on lesser celandine by telling us the date you first see it flowering where you live

  • It’s a perennial herb, flowering in March-May