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Meadow Buttercup ( Ranunculus acris)

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A plant with numerous hairy leaves divided into seven lobes. Flowers are bright to pale yellow. It has numerous clustered fruits each with a short hooked beak. The sepals are spreading but not bent back. This plant can carpet a meadow and is still a common sight. As with other buttercups, at one time it was believed the ground up roots could cure plague and the flowers hung around the neck could cure madness. It flowers from May to August or even October in a good year. Picture taken 3rd May at Maulden, Bedfordshire.

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8th May 2006 by Diane Earl

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Biology, Science

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Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 4+

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plant flower wildlife

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