An expanse of a kind of creeping buttercup plant, Ranunculus repens, has green leaves with yellow flowers. It is a herbaceous, stoloniferous perennial plant growing to 50 cm (20 inches) tall. It has both prostrate running stems, which produce roots and new plants at the nodes, and more or less erect flowering stems. The basal leaves are compound, borne on a 4ââ¬â20 cm (1.6ââ¬â7.9 inches) long petiole and divided into three broad leaflets 1.5ââ¬â8 cm (0.59ââ¬â3.15 inches) long, shallowly to deeply lobed, each of which is stalked, distinguishing the species from Ranunculus acris in which the terminal leaflet is sessile
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