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Western Isles Wildflowers

Western Isles wildflowers is a collection of information about our Hebridean wildflowers including identification hints, traditional herbal uses and general plant lore.

 

Common Meadow Buttercup

Ranaculus acris

Gaelic name: Buidheag an t-Samhraidh

Wildflowers - Common Meadow Buttercup

Likes dunes machair and damp grassland.
The landscape of the Lewis lower grassland becomes yellow with buttercups in high summer.

Stems 1 - 3 feet tall.
Does not root along the stem like strawberry runners (that one is probably creeping buttercup)

Common Meadow Buttercup is a member of the Ranunculae - the buttercup family .
Ranunculus is Latin for "little frog", members of this plant family also like wet habitats and are well represented here in the Western Isles!

 

Traditional Uses

In Glencoe daisies and buttercups were made into an ointment used to treat bruises and sores.


Stornoway Castle Grounds - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
5th June, 2006

Index
A-Z Wildflowers

Flowers By Colours:
thumbnails

yellow wildflowers

white wildflowers

pink wildflowers

blue or purplish

orchid ID notes

Flowering in:

January

February

March   

April

May

June

July

Colour of the season

May 27th Lush Green!

June 11th White

June 25th Pink

 

 


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