Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Buttercups, Poppies, and Allies
  6. Buttercup Family
  7. Buttercups
  8. Ranunculus
  9. Meadow Buttercup
  10. Supports

What Meadow Buttercup supports

114 native animals
supported in the US
2 caterpillars 19 food 93 flowers

Caterpillars All

2 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Sparganothis Fruitworm Moth Sparganothis sulfureana
  • Stalk Borer Moth Papaipema nebris

Plant eaters All

19 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Goldenrod Crab Spider Misumena vatia
  • Eurasian Jackdaw Coloeus monedula
  • Leaf-Miner Fly Phytomyza ranunculi
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Common Raven Corvus corax
  • Redpoll Acanthis flammea
  • Poplar-Buttercup Gall Aphid Thecabius affinis
  • Brown Bear Ursus arctos
See all

Flower visitors All

93 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Variable Duskyface Fly Melanostoma mellinum
  • Buttercup Blacklet Cheilosia albitarsis
  • Common Flower Fly Syrphus ribesii
  • Four-spotted Pipiza Pipiza quadrimaculata
  • Broad-banded Aphideater Eupeodes latifasciatus
  • Black-thighed Flower Fly Syrphus vitripennis
  • Orange-legged Furrow Bee Halictus rubicundus
  • Hairy-eyed Flower Fly Syrphus torvus
See all

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect