Flowers - Buttercup

Buttercups are ever-green perennials. These flowered in May.

Buttercups can grow on open grassland, where they look beautiful. They can also look beautiful in the garden, but are surprisingly rampant, growing long tendrils which reroot to form new flowers. At the moment, I am trying to persuade them that they do not want to live in the rose-bed, but beside the path instead.

Buttercups also seem to object to being photographed. I don't know why! Only some of the photos of the flower are in in focus, but I've included the others because they show the leaves, or the side view. In sunlight, the flowers seem to glow. Perhaps this distracts the camera.

It's said that if you hold a buttercup flower under your chin, and it reflects yellow, then you like butter. In sunlight, it normally does, but then we mostly like butter!

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