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Buttercup Family Ranunculaceae: RANUNCULACEAE, ra-nung-ku-la'se-e, the crowfoot or buttercup family Ranunculaceae family of flowering plants, containing about 35 genera and 1,500 species, widely distributed over the earth but most abundant in the north temperate and Arctic zones. In the tropics the plants occur chiefly at higher altitudes; in the Arctic certain buttercup family Ranunculaceaes (Ranunculus) grow at almost the highest latitudes of land. About 20 genera and 300 species of Ranunculaceae are native to the United States.
Confucius (551^179 B.C.) formulated the Golden Rule in a negative form: "Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you" (Analects 15:23).
GOLDEN SEAL is a hardy perennial herb (Hy-drastis canadensis) of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae family (Ranunculaceae) whose rootstock provides an alkaloid used as a medicinal tonic. The simple ground rootstock is still used, but more purified preparations are now preferred.
But many members of the family have flowers that differ from this pattern. Delphinium and Aconitum have irregularly shaped flowers; Hepatica, Anemone, and Caltha have no petals, the conspicuous parts of the flower being the sepals ; and Actaea has only 1 pistil. The flowers of Ranunculaceae are typically bisexual, containing both stamens and pistils, but in some meadow rues (Thalictrum) and clematises they are unisexual.
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