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 > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >