. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 154 RANUNCULACEAB (CROWFOOT FAMILY) CURSED CROWFOOT Rantinculus sceleratus, L. Other English names: Celery-leaved Crowfoot, Ditch Crowfoot, Bog Buttercup. Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: May to August. Seed-time: June to October. Range: New Brunswick to Minnesota, southward to Florida; also in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, and Utah. Native to Europe and Asia. Habitat: Wet meadows
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 154 RANUNCULACEAB (CROWFOOT FAMILY) CURSED CROWFOOT Rantinculus sceleratus, L. Other English names: Celery-leaved Crowfoot, Ditch Crowfoot, Bog Buttercup. Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: May to August. Seed-time: June to October. Range: New Brunswick to Minnesota, southward to Florida; also in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, and Utah. Native to Europe and Asia. Habitat: Wet meadows, low pastures, along ditches and in bogs. Cattle ordinarily are careful to reject all Buttercups, because of their acrid and poisonous juices, but when first turned out to grass in the spring they are likely to graze so eagerly as to get some of the young leaves of this one, which causes an inflammation of mouths and digestive tracts, sometimes so severe as to be fatal. Stem stout, sometimes over an inch thick at the base, smooth, hollow, much-branched, six inches to two feet in height. The alter- nate leaves are also very smooth and rather thick, the basal ones rounded heart-shape in outline, but deeply three- to five-lobed, bluntly toothed or entire, with long, broad, flattened petioles; stem-leaves also three- parted, but the lobes are more slender, ap-» proaching to wedge-shape, those near the top becoming linear. Flowers small, the five pale yellow petals scarcely exceeding the calyx; stamens and styles numerous. Ra- nunculus fruits are composed of many one- seeded carpels tipped by more or less elon- gated styles; in this species the heads are oblong, the length nearly thrice the thick- ness, each one closely set with many minute, Crowfoot" (Ran^umcw- short-beaked carpels, each containing one lus sceleratus). x i- oval, flattened, dull brown Fig. 104. — Cursed. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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