Creeping buttercup is our most familiar buttercup - the buttery-yellow flowers are like little drops of sunshine peppering garden lawns…. Volunteer to help wildlife in your local area. Opportunities range from community gardening, species surveying, caring for nature….
The green spaces of our towns and gardens bring nature into our daily lives, brightening our mornings with birdsong and the busy buzzing…. Meadow buttercup. Share facebook twitter email whatsapp. Stolon growth starts in spring, peaks in late summer. This plant is extremely aggressive and toxic to grazing animals. However, in King County, this non-native invasive buttercup species is classified as a Weed of Concern.
For more information see Noxious Weed Lists and Laws. The King County Noxious Weed Control Board recommends the prevention of spread of this species to uninfested areas and its control in protected wilderness areas, natural lands that are being restored to native vegetation, and in pastures that are being grazed. Fresh buttercup plants are toxic to grazing animals, who can suffer from salivation, skin irritation, blisters, abdominal distress, inflammation, and diarrhea.
Fortunately, buttercup has a strong, bitter taste so animals generally try to avoid it if more palatable forage is available. Also, the toxin protoanemonin is not very stable and loses its potency when dry, so buttercup is not generally toxic in hay. Unfortunately, livestock occasionally develop a taste for buttercup and consume fatal quantities. It is safest to keep populations of buttercup under control on grazed pastures and offer plenty of healthy forage.
Creeping buttercup spreads by seed and by long branching stolons that root at the nodes, forming new plants. In more established woodland and grassland communities, this plant increases mostly through stolons unless the soil is disturbed.
In dry conditions, flowering and seeding is more prevalent and in wet conditions, stolons are more plentiful. Seeds can germinate and seedlings can grow under water-logged conditions.
Depending on the temperature, creeping buttercup either overwinters as a rosette or dies back to ground level. In either case, the nutrients stored in the short swollen stem produce rapid growth in spring, between April and June. Stolons grow from the leaf axils in spring and summer and growth peaks in late summer. Stolons connecting parent and daughter plants usually die off in fall.
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Save to My scrapbook. Creeping buttercup. Quick facts. Common name creeping buttercup Latin name Ranunculus repens Areas affected woodland beds and borders in shade Main causes weed with spreading runners and seeds Timing flowering in spring; treat in spring and summer.
Jump to What is creeping buttercup? Such features will be perpetuated in the clones. Buttercups, like many members of the Ranunculaceae, contain various toxic chemicals - which give them an acrid taste.
Buttercups — creeping, bulbous and meadow Leaves and Stem The meadow buttercup is a pretty plant that can grows to a height of two feet or more.. Flowers and Fruits Some buttercups come into flower in early Spring. Ecology and other notes The creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens tends to prefer damp situations, but it is fairly 'easy going' and tolerant of soil conditions.
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