Ranunculus revision?
Robt R Pries (Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:50:49 PDT)
Jane; I wonder if this might be an instance of lumping
verses spliting. In such a case Ranunculus kochii
would be a different plant than Ficaria kochii. The
lumpers would just say it is Ranunculus ficaria. The
sad part is that, it seems to me that lumpers also
don;t like to deal with varieties, therefore they
would not use Ranunculus ficaria var. kochii as the
replacemnt and we are left with no recognition of the
variation. In general it seems to me that there are
more lumpers in the West and more splitters in the
East. Frankly I don't care which prevails as long as
all the variability has a name.
High Ridge, MO, USA. hot, muggy, zone 5/6 changing to
7 in the beautiful Ozark mountains (Hills for some)
--- Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:
While reading Janis Ruksans's new book, I came
across a reference to
"Ficaria kochii." I surmised this was what has long
been known as
Ranunculus kochii (a plant I lost some years ago and
would love to have
again), so I Googled it and found four citations of
Ficaria kochii Ledeb.
Then I wondered what has now happened to the common
Ranunculus ficaria L.
(the bright yellow weed that gets into lawns), and
apparently it's now
Ficaria verna Huds.
Does anyone know whether this revision is fully
accepted? It'll certainly
annoy a lot of people who grow 'Brazen Hussy'!
Jane McGary
Northwestern Oregon,
USA
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