It is a herbaceous annual or perennial plant generally found in slow flowing streams, ponds, or lakes.

[7] It was first described and published by the French naturalist and botanist Dominique Villars in his book 'Histoire des plantes du Dauphiné' Vol.3 on page 335 in 1786.

[13] Phytoremediation is a plant-based approach, which involves the use of plants to extract and remove elemental pollutants or lower their bioavailability in soil.

[14] Ranunculus trichophyllus is great in phytofiltration to deal with arsenic which is accumulated in aquatic plants and eliminated from water.

[15] It grows in freshwater,[16] found in dune slacks and drainage ditches to ponds, lakes, streams and slow-flowing rivers.