Ficaria verna. Captura: Camprodon, Ripollès, Girona, Catalunya.
CATALÀ
La gatassa, celidònia o herba de les morenes (Ranunculus ficaria L.) és una espècie de ranuncle autòctona dels Països Catalans, de flors amb molts pètals grocs brillants i que viu a les voreres de rierols i llocs humits de la Mediterrània. Antigament les seves arrels s'usaven com a remei contra les hemorroides o morenes. No es recomana el consum d'aquesta planta, que es considera com verinosa.
La gatassa pot fer de cinc a trenta centímetres d'alt, de gener a maig hi destaquen les flors grogues d'uns cinc centímetres de diàmetre i amb molts pètals. Les fulles també són lluents, de contorn arrodonit amb la base auriculada i tenen un llarg pecíol. Les arrels són tuberoses.
Creix a tot Europa i a l'oest d'Àsia. Als Països Catalans n'hi ha a Mallorca, Menorca i les províncies de Barcelona, Girona i Lleida.
ENGLISH
Ficaria verna, (formerly Ranunculus ficaria L.) commonly known as lesser celandine or pilewort,is a low-growing, hairless perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae native to Europe and west Asia. It has fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves and distinctive flowers with bright yellow, glossy petals. It is now introduced in North America, where it is known by the common name fig buttercup and considered an invasive species.The plant is poisonous if ingested raw and potentially fatal to grazing animals and livestock such as horses, cattle, and sheep. For these reasons, several US states have banned the plant or listed it as a noxious weed. It prefers bare, damp ground and is considered by horticulturalists in the United Kingdom as a persistent garden weed; nevertheless, many specialist plantsmen, nursery owners and discerning gardeners in the UK and Europe collect selected cultivars of the plant, including bronze-leaved and double-flowered ones. Emerging in late winter with flowers appearing March through May in the UK, its appearance across the landscape is regarded by many as a harbinger of spring. It produces actinomorphic (radially symmetrical) flowers with 3 sepaloid tepals and 7 to 12 glossy yellow petaloid tepals. Double flowered varieties also occur. The stamens and carpels are numerous, and the fruit is a single-seeded achene with a very short style. In several subspecies, tubers are formed in the leaf axils after flowering. It blooms between March and May in the UK
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Ficaria verna. Captura: Camprodon, Ripollès, Girona, Catalunya.
CATALÀ
La gatassa, celidònia o herba de les morenes (Ranunculus ficaria L.) és una espècie de ranuncle autòctona dels Països Catalans, de flors amb molts pètals grocs brillants i que viu a les voreres de rierols i llocs humits de la Mediterrània. Antigament les seves arrels s'usaven com a remei contra les hemorroides o morenes. No es recomana el consum d'aquesta planta, que es considera com verinosa.
La gatassa pot fer de cinc a trenta centímetres d'alt, de gener a maig hi destaquen les flors grogues d'uns cinc centímetres de diàmetre i amb molts pètals. Les fulles també són lluents, de contorn arrodonit amb la base auriculada i tenen un llarg pecíol. Les arrels són tuberoses.
Creix a tot Europa i a l'oest d'Àsia. Als Països Catalans n'hi ha a Mallorca, Menorca i les províncies de Barcelona, Girona i Lleida.
ENGLISH
Ficaria verna, (formerly Ranunculus ficaria L.) commonly known as lesser celandine or pilewort,is a low-growing, hairless perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae native to Europe and west Asia. It has fleshy dark green, heart-shaped leaves and distinctive flowers with bright yellow, glossy petals. It is now introduced in North America, where it is known by the common name fig buttercup and considered an invasive species.The plant is poisonous if ingested raw and potentially fatal to grazing animals and livestock such as horses, cattle, and sheep. For these reasons, several US states have banned the plant or listed it as a noxious weed. It prefers bare, damp ground and is considered by horticulturalists in the United Kingdom as a persistent garden weed; nevertheless, many specialist plantsmen, nursery owners and discerning gardeners in the UK and Europe collect selected cultivars of the plant, including bronze-leaved and double-flowered ones. Emerging in late winter with flowers appearing March through May in the UK, its appearance across the landscape is regarded by many as a harbinger of spring. It produces actinomorphic (radially symmetrical) flowers with 3 sepaloid tepals and 7 to 12 glossy yellow petaloid tepals. Double flowered varieties also occur. The stamens and carpels are numerous, and the fruit is a single-seeded achene with a very short style. In several subspecies, tubers are formed in the leaf axils after flowering. It blooms between March and May in the UK
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