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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus sceleratus L.
celery-leaf buttercup, cursed crowfoot
Ranunculus: from Latin rana, "little frog," because many species tend to grow in moist places
sceleratus: cursed
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual/perennial, 8"-20" tall forb; stems stout, hollow, smooth, branched toward the top |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 1/4" wide, normally 5 sepals, petals shorter than the sepals; many solitary, stalked flowers; blooms April-June |
| Fruit: | dry seeds in a short, cylindrical cluster |
| Leaf: | basal and stem leaves much the same shape with the upper much smaller; kidney-shaped, deeply 3-parted with lobes again divided |
| Habitat: | wet; marshes, swamps, ditches |
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