Bulbous Buttercup

Description:

This flowering plant is a small, perennial plant, that emmits a golden color. The flowers' five golden petals give the flower it round, cup-shaped appearance. The weed seems to form small clusters of these flowers.

Habitat:

The bulbous buttercup, seems to grow in mainly the western, midwestern and eastern regions of the United States and Canada. They prefer to grow in lawns (where I usually see them), pastures and open fields where there is water-drained and low nutrition in the soil. They also apear in hayfields and costal grasslands.

Notes:

There is nothing too strange about these species of buttercup because I see them all the time in the spring and summer. They are considered weeds, however, when one sees them in large fields, they are quite a sight. Their name derives from the plants' reproductive organ, it's a bulb-shaped stem that is usually called a corm. The stems shape and sepals helps distinguish it from other buttercup species. The plant also carries a toxin making it harmful for other animals, such as livestock to consume until the plant dries out as does the toxin.