![]() To leave a comment please Register or login here All comments need to be approved so will not appear immediately. * Please note: the comments by website users are not necessarily those held by PFAF and may give misleading or inaccurate information. If you think a comment/link or information contained on this page is inaccurate or misleading we would welcome your feedback at If you have questions about a plant please use the Forum on this website as we do not have the resources to answer questions ourselves. Only comments or links that are felt to be directly relevant to a plant will be included. If you have important information about this plant that may help other users please add a comment or link below. Even cows wont eat the plant until it has been turned into hay. However, it is important to cook it thoroughly or dry it properly before eating it, as it contains protoanemonin, a toxin found in the creeping buttercup family. ![]() I've been putting buttercups in the compost heap with no problems getting the pile to heat up and compost. Edible Properties The creeping buttercup is a plant that has been known to sustain people during times of famine. To return some of the nutrition they have absorbed back into the soil via I am a great believer in drying perennial weed roots# If it is safe to put o n the compost heap after thorough drying or should I had heard that this plant was poisonous to soil bacteria, and wondered Moisture: D = dry M = Moist We = wet Wa = water.įor a list of references used on this page please go here Shade: F = full shade S = semi-shade N = no shade. pH: A = acid N = neutral B = basic (alkaline). Soil: L = light (sandy) M = medium H = heavy (clay). Rough-Seed Buttercup, Spinyfruit buttercupĬelery-Leaved Buttercup, Cursed buttercup Lesser Spearwort, Greater creeping spearwort Lesser Celandine - Pilewort, Fig buttercup They are normally avoided, but when other feed becomes scarce they may be grazed with serious consequences.Meadow Buttercup, Tall buttercup, Showy buttercup Wood-sorrel (Wood-sorrel’s growth is less upright and its flowers aren’t as large or showy)Ĭaution: The buttercups have a bitter, acrid juice which causes severe pain and inflammation when grazed by livestock. Flowering and setting seed from late May throughout the summer and fall.Seeds: 3 mm (1/8 in.) long, flattened, egg-shaped in outline with short hooked tip.Stamens: numerous around the cluster of tiny pistils.Grouped on long stalks in a much-branched inflorescence.Seeds: individually very small, 0.8- 1.4 mm (1/30- 1/20 in.) long, but very numerous in a short cylindrical cluster.Stamens: many in a ring surrounding the many tiny pistils. ![]() Sepals: 2- 5 mm (1/12- 1/5 in.) long with soft hairs.The whole inflorescence either rounded or elongated.Numerous but borne singly on long stalks at the ends of branches.Middle segment with a distinct short stalk.Base of each leafstalk flattened and partly surrounding the stem at each node.Upper leaves progressively smaller with fewer and smoother lobes.Middle similar to lower leaves but nearly stalkless.Blade deeply divided into 5 lobes irregularly jagged or coarsely toothed.Upper leaves much smaller, commonly either having 3 linear oblong segments with entire, or only slightly, toothed divisions, or simple. ![]()
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