Israel wildflowers: Corn Buttercup

Ranunculus arvensis, Corn Buttercup, Devil-on-all-sides, Scratch Bur,

Hebrew: נורית השדה, Arabic: الحوذان الحقلي


Scientific name:		Ranunculus arvensis L.
Common name:		Corn Buttercup, Devil-on-all-sides, Scratch Bur
Hebrew name:		נורית השדה
Arabic name:		الحوذان الحقلي
Family:		Ranunculaceae, נוריתיים

_{Location: Golan Heights, Irus Bizzot Nov Reserve}


Life form:		Annual
Leaves:		Alternate; dissected, dissected twice or more; dentate or serrate
Flowers:		Yellow; hermaphrodite
Flowering Period:		March, April, May
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Euro-Siberian – Med – Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

_{Location: Golan Heights, Irus Bizzot Nov Reserve}
Derivation of the botanical name:

Ranunculus, rana, “frog”, Ranunculus, “little frog”, literally froglike (from marshy places).

arvensis, arvum, field, cultivated land, plowed land; ensis adjective suffix for nouns: country or place of origin or habitat; of cultivated fields.
The Hebrew name: נורית, nurit, from Aramaic: נוריתא, nurita; נור, nur: to give light, to shine; to burn; Aramaic: נורא ,נור (=fire).

The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.

_{Location: Golan Heights, Irus Bizzot Nov Reserve}