cursed buttercup
Ranunculus sceleratus
RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Habit
- Herb
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn
- Bloom color
- Yellow
- Foliage color
- Green
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Cursed buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus) is an annual for pollinator gardens. This plant likes part sun or part shade and moist soil. Its yellow flowers open in spring, summer, and early autumn, and bees visit them. The plant grows up to 24 inches tall. The leaves and stems are watery, and the juice causes blisters, so wear gloves when you handle it.
Pairs well with Marginal wood fern, White Feather hosta, and Corn mint.
Native range
North America, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and 32 more places. See all 36
North America, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, Africa, Altay, Amur, Baleares, Buryatiya, Chita, Corse, District of Columbia, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., Nansei-shoto, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Primorye, Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Sicilia, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Xinjiang, and Yakutiya.