What is "ranunculus repens"

Creeping \Creep"ing\, a.

1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. ``Every creeping thing.''
   --Gen. vi. 20.

2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

   Casements lined with creeping herbs.
   --Cowper.

   Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.

   Creeping snowberry, an American plant ( Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.

Ranunculus repens, the creeping buttercup, is a flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe, Asia and northwestern Africa. It is also called creeping crowfoot and (along with restharrow) sitfast.