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Creeping Buttercup

Plants Crataegus viridisCreeping Jenny

Creeping Buttercup
Characteristics
This Buttercup is quite common and appears on grassland of all types.

 


Creeping Buttercup
Like small, brightly-colored Peonies, Ranunculus flowers offer masses of spring color for sunny borders or containers. Plant with tall flowers, such as Snapdragons, Iceland Poppies, or with Daffodils, as Ranunculus blooms later.

Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens) is one of the prettiest weeds in the Pacific Northwest. It is also troublesome on farmlands because potentially toxic to ruminants, however mildly so.

Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens) is regarded as a significant environmental weed in Victoria and as an environmental weed in New South Wales and the ACT.

Creeping Buttercup [English]: Ranunculus repens
Creeping Buttercup [English]: Ranunculus repens 'Buttered Popcorn'
Creeping Buttercup [English]: Ranunculus repens var. repens
Creeping Cactus [English]: Opuntia pusilla ...

creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens
creeping foxtail; reed foxtail Alopecurus arundinaceus
creeping lantana, purple lantana; weeping lantana Lantana montevidensis
creeping lilyturf Liriope spicatum
creeping velvet grass Holcus mollis ...

Pernicious problems such as ground elder, bindweed and creeping buttercup may require chemical control
Prepare the border for planting and leave until spring or when regrowth appears.

Spearwort Buttercup
Ranunculus flammula L.
Other names: lesser spearwort, creeping buttercup
Family: Ranunculaceae, Buttercup
Genus: Ranunculus ...

Companion plants found with it include three weedy European perennials: lawn daisy (Bellis perennis), thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica Serpyllifolia), creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens); and a native moss Rhytidiophyllus squarrosus.

the turban, or Persian, buttercup (R. asiaticus), valued for the variety of its colors (all but blue), and the creeping buttercup (R. repens), native to both North America and Europe. R.

See also: Buttercup, May, Grass, Green, Rose

Plants Crataegus viridisCreeping Jenny

 
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