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. Why is it called buttercup,
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As she remarks to the audience at her introduction. It is vaguely cup shaped and (typically) bright yellow.
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and why is it called Ranunculus?
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Harder to say: something about it looked like a tadpole? It is also called crowsfoot (the shape of the leaves of some species) and King's cup (yellow=gold, probably). Strictly, it is modernly ranunculus because it was classically (Pliny, etc.), but God knows where Pliny got it (or the gardeners Pliny was quoting). _
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