Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Family Results

Category: Dicots
Family Name: Ranunculaceae

Aconitum - [maps | photos]

• Aconitum reclinatum A. Gray (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: trailing white monkshood
  Synonyms:
  

         • Aconitum uncinatum L. var. muticum DC.

• Aconitum uncinatum L.
  Common Name: southern blue monkshood

Actaea - [maps | photos]

• Actaea pachypoda Ell.
  Common Name: white baneberry, doll's eyes
  Synonyms:
  

         • Actaea alba auct. non (L.) P. Mill.

         • Actaea alba auct. non (L.) P. Mill.

Adonis - [maps | photos]

• Adonis annua * L.
  Common Name: pheasant's eye
  Synonyms:
  

         • Adonis autumnalis L.

         • Adonis autumnalis L.

Anemone - [maps | photos]

• Anemone canadensis L. (TN Endangered -Possibly Extirpated)
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: Canadian anemone

• Anemone caroliniana Walt. (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: Carolina anemone

• Anemone quinquefolia L.
  NWI R2 TN: No Wetland Indicator
  Common Name: nightcaps, wood anemone
  Synonyms:
  

         • Anemone lancifolia Pursh

         • Anemone minima DC.

         • Anemone lancifolia Pursh

         • Anemone minima DC.

• Anemone virginiana L.
  NWI R2 TN: No Wetland Indicator
  Common Name: tall thimbleweed

Aquilegia - [maps | photos]

• Aquilegia canadensis L.
  Common Name: red columbine

Caltha - [maps | photos]

• Caltha palustris L. (TN Endangered)
  NWI R2 TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: yellow marsh marigold

Cimicifuga - [maps | photos]

• Cimicifuga americana Michx.
  Common Name: mountain bugbane

• Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt.

• Cimicifuga rubifolia Kearney (TN Threatened)
  Common Name: Appalachian bugbane

Clematis - [maps | photos]

• Clematis catesbyana Pursh
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: Catesby's virgins bower
  Synonyms:
  

         • Clematis micrantha Small

• Clematis crispa L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland +
  Common Name: swamp leather flower

• Clematis fremontii S. Wats. (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: Fremont's leather flower

• Clematis glaucophylla Small (TN Special Concern)
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: whiteleaf leather flower

• Clematis morefieldii Kral (TN Endangered)  (Fed Listed Endangered)
  Common Name: Huntsville vasevine

• Clematis pitcheri Torr. & A. Gray (TN Threatened)
  NWI R2 TN: No Wetland Indicator
  Common Name: bluebill

• Clematis terniflora * DC.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: sweet autumn virgins bower
  Synonyms:
  

         • Clematis dioscoreifolia Levl. & Vaniot

         • Clematis paniculata Thunb.

         • Clematis maximowicziana Franch. & Savigny

• Clematis versicolor Small ex Rydb.
  Common Name: pale leather flower

• Clematis vinacea Floden (TN Endangered)

• Clematis viorna L.
  Common Name: vasevine

• Clematis virginiana L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: devil's darning needles

Consolida - [maps | photos]

• Consolida ajacis * (L.) Schur
  Common Name: doubtful knight's-spur, rocket larkspur
  Synonyms:
  

         • Delphinium ajacis L.

         • Consolida ambigua (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood

         • Consolida ambigua (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood

         • Delphinium ambiguum L.

         • Delphinium ambiguum L.

         • Delphinium ajacis L.

Delphinium - [maps | photos]

• Delphinium carolinianum Walt. ssp. calciphilum Warnock
  Common Name: Carolina larkspur

• Delphinium exaltatum Aiton (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: tall larkspur

• Delphinium tricorne Michx.
  Common Name: dwarf larkspur

Enemion - [maps | photos]

• Enemion biternatum Raf.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: eastern false rue anemone
  Synonyms:
  

         • Isopyrum biternatum (Raf.) Torr. & Gray

Hepatica - [maps | photos]

• Hepatica acutiloba DC.
  Common Name: sharplobe hepatica, liverleaf
  Synonyms:
  

         • Hepatica nobilis Schreb. var. acuta (Pursh) Steyermark

         • Hepatica nobilis Schreb. var. acuta (Pursh) Steyermark

• Hepatica americana (DC.) Ker-Gawl.
  Common Name: liverleaf
  Synonyms:
  

         • Hepatica nobilis Schreb. var. obtusa (Pursh) Steyermark

         • Hepatica nobilis Schreb. var. obtusa (Pursh) Steyermark

Hydrastis - [maps | photos]

• Hydrastis canadensis L. (TN Special Concern -Commercially Exploited)
  Common Name: goldenseal

Myosurus - [maps | photos]

• Myosurus minimus L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland -
  Common Name: tiny mousetail

Ranunculus - [maps | photos]

• Ranunculus abortivus L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: littleleaf buttercup

• Ranunculus acris * L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: tall buttercup

• Ranunculus allegheniensis Britton
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: Allegheny Mountain buttercup

• Ranunculus ambigens S. Wats.
  NWI R2 TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: waterplantain spearwort

• Ranunculus aquatilis L. var. diffusus Withering (TN Endangered)
  NWI R2 TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: longbeak buttercup
  Synonyms:
  

         • Ranunculus longirostris Godr.

• Ranunculus arvensis * L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: corn buttercup

• Ranunculus bulbosus * L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: St. Anthony's turnip

• Ranunculus fascicularis Muhl. ex Bigelow
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: early buttercup

• Ranunculus ficaria * L.
  Common Name: fig buttercup

• Ranunculus flabellaris Raf. (TN Threatened)
  NWI R2 TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: yellow water buttercup

• Ranunculus harveyi (A. Gray) Britton (TN Special Concern)
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: Harvey's buttercup

• Ranunculus hispidus Michx. var. hispidus
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: bristly buttercup

• Ranunculus hispidus Michx. var. nitidus (Chapman) T. Duncan
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: bristly buttercup
  Synonyms:
  

         • Ranunculus carolinianus DC.

         • Ranunculus septentrionalis Poir.

• Ranunculus laxicaulis (Torr. & A. Gray) Darby
  NWI R2 TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: Mississippi buttercup

• Ranunculus micranthus Nutt.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: rock buttercup

• Ranunculus parviflorus * L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: smallflower buttercup

• Ranunculus pusillus Poir.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland +
  Common Name: low spearwort

• Ranunculus recurvatus Poir.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: blisterwort

• Ranunculus repens * L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: creeping buttercup

• Ranunculus sardous * Crantz
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: hairy buttercup

• Ranunculus sceleratus L.
  NWI R2 TN: Obligate Wetland
  Common Name: cursed buttercup

Thalictrum - [maps | photos]

• Thalictrum clavatum DC.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: mountain meadow-rue
  Synonyms:
  

         • Thalictrum mirabile Small

• Thalictrum coriaceum (Britton) Small (TN Threatened)
  Common Name: maid of the mist

• Thalictrum dioicum L.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative
  Common Name: early meadow-rue

• Thalictrum mirabile Small
  Common Name: little mountain meadow-rue

• Thalictrum pubescens Pursh
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland +
  Common Name: king of the meadow
  Synonyms:
  

         • Thalictrum pubescens Pursh var. hepaticum (Greene) Keener

• Thalictrum revolutum DC.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative +
  Common Name: waxyleaf meadow-rue

• Thalictrum thalictroides (L.) Eames & B. Boivin
  Common Name: rue anemone
  Synonyms:
  

         • Anemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach

Trautvetteria - [maps | photos]

• Trautvetteria caroliniensis (Walt.) Vail
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland +
  Common Name: Carolina bugbane

• Trautvetteria fonticalcarea A. Floden
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: leatherleaf tassel rue

Xanthorhiza - [maps | photos]

• Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marsh.
  NWI R2 TN: Facultative Wetland -
  Common Name: yellowroot

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Dr. Jessica M. Budke or Margaret Oliver.