English

buttercup spp
(at least three different plants known/used by the Arapaho)

Scientific Name

Ranunculus glaberrimus, and other Ranunculus spp.

Arapaho

#1. heneixo’? ; #2. niihoone’einoo’; #3 yenéinkóóti'i

Translation of the Arapaho

#1 ???; #2. ‘yellow head’ ; #3 'it has four leaves'

Buttercups and the Arapaho

Ferdinand Hayden identified the plant with name #2 as Ranunculus glaberrimus. Oliver Toll in 1914 identified the plant with name #1 (transcription uncertain) as a “little buttercup (lighter yellow)” - in particular, lighter yellow than plant #3. Toll identified plant #3 only as a “little buttercup.”

Ranunculus spp