Ranunculales: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	buttercup order

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yellow water buttercup

sagebrush buttercup

Blue columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia).

Dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne)

American barberry (Berberis canadensis).

Creeping barberry (Mahonia repens).

Canada moonseed (Menispermum canadense).

Five-leaf akebia (Akebia quinata).

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Lardizabalaceae Menispermaceae Circaeasteraceae Coriariceae Papaveraceae celandine Berberidaceae Ranunculaceae Eupteleaceae plume poppy Nymphaeales Proteales Trochodendrales Buxales Ceratophyllales Magnoliales Laurales Canellales Piperales Archaefructus

Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap

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trees deciduous and coniferous. trees grow on a bank of a forest in springtime in Alberta, British Columbia, Canada. logging, forestry, wood, lumber, wilderness

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