For his part he had left the lilies of life behind him, and reached the ranunculus, the flower of blood.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
In the foreground the earth, still brown, and only just released from its long winter covering of snow, bore masses of small golden ranunculus and rose-hued primulas.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
The ground was marshy, and covered with cowslips, ranunculus, grasses and sedges, Cyananthus, blue asters, gentians, etc.
"Himalayan Journals V2."
J. D. Hooker