The genus includes "Ficaria verna", known as fig buttercup or lesser celandine, and related species. Members of the genus include the buttercups, spearworts, water crowfoots and the lesser celandine. It may either be Greater celandine of the poppy family, or Lesser celandine, a buttercup. Woodland herbs include lesser celandine and wild violet. Early bloomers are e. g. wood violet, lesser celandine und ivy-leaved speedwell. Lesser celandine is a hairless perennial, with spirally-arranged cordate dark-green leaves without stipules.