Three Yellow Buttercups
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Three Yellow Buttercups
Artist
Lingfai Leung
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Photograph - Photographs
Description
A buttercup is a kind of flower. It has yellow, shiny, petals, and grows wild in lots of different places. Some animals get sick when they eat it, but they do not do that a lot because buttercups taste bad.
Buttercups belong to a plant family named Ranunculaceae. Ranunculaceae is based on the Latin word rānunculus, which means "little frog". Buttercups include a wide variety, grouped by a plant naming system in the genus Ranunculus. Among them are the Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris), Goldilocks Buttercup (R. auricomus), Large White Buttercup (R. platanafolius), Celery-leaved Buttercup (R. sceleratus), Corn Buttercup (R. arvensis), Bulbous Buttercup (R. bulbosus) and Glacial Buttercup (R. glacialis).
Lesser Celandine (R. ficaria), Lesser Spearwort (R. flammula), Greater Spearwort (R. lingua) and the Creeping Buttercup (R. repens) also belong to the buttercup family.
Plants of the commonly named buttercup family grow in many different variations but most can be identified by their yellow cupped flowers and free-growing habit. The plants often climb or sprawl, with leaves arranged in spirals. An observant botanist might notice leaves without stipules and flowers with many stamens.
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