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== Anatomy == | == Anatomy == | ||
[[Image:MiddleButtercup.jpg|thumb|<br />150px|left|This is the center of the Buttercup flower]] | [[Image:MiddleButtercup.jpg|thumb|<br />150px|left|This is the center of the Buttercup flower]] | ||
Buttercups have five to six pedals or sepals. Sepals are the "fake" petals, | Buttercups have five to six pedals or sepals. Sepals are the "fake" petals, which will take over if the flower loses a pedal. But some Buttercups only have sepals for pedals and those are called fake buttercups. In the very middle of the Buttercup are many elongate pistils that are surrounded by stamens that may have threadlike tapering styles. The fruit of the buttercup is either an achene or follicle. But in some varieties of Buttercups there are actually berries as the fruits.[http://www.voyageur.drake.edu/Wacha/buttercup_family/buttercup_flower_family.html#anchor24741708] | ||
Buttercups can grow up to one to three feet tall and can be about an inch across. All buttercups are yellow except for different members of the Buttercup family. | Buttercups can grow up to one to three feet tall and can be about an inch across. All buttercups are yellow except for different members of the Buttercup family. They can range in colors from white to orange, and sometimes pink.[http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/ranunculusacri.html]The reason why buttercups are so shiny is because of added cells just beneath the first layer of the flower making it look sort of polished.[http://www.rivernen.ca/plant_50.htm] | ||
== Reproduction == | == Reproduction == | ||
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Some people will dry them to get rid of the toxins from the buttercup and put them in hay for livestock to eat. Because that is the only way animals can eat them without getting sick. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus]Even though you can find them on roadsides, meadows, fields, and grassy areas they are very dangerous to animals and sometimes to humans if they pick numerous amounts of them and handle lots of them because what the plant produces. | Some people will dry them to get rid of the toxins from the buttercup and put them in hay for livestock to eat. Because that is the only way animals can eat them without getting sick. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus]Even though you can find them on roadsides, meadows, fields, and grassy areas they are very dangerous to animals and sometimes to humans if they pick numerous amounts of them and handle lots of them because what the plant produces. | ||
== | == Poisonous == | ||
Buttercups are | Buttercups are poisonous flowers that only affect animals. The flower has a terrible taste to it and it makes the mouth of the animal that ate it blister. Most livestock only eat the flower out of desperation because their whole field was taken over by buttercups. After the animal consumes the food, the symptoms are bloody diarrhea, excessive salivation, colic, and severe blistering of the mucous membranes and gastrointestinal tract. | ||
Even if a human is handling the plant they should be careful not handle it too much because it will produce naturally occuring ranunculin that will than produce protoanemonin. When you get protoanemonin on you, you must be treated for it or it will cause contact dermatitis, but this is only if you handle the plant excessively. The only way you can kill the toxins in the plant is if you dry them, | Even if a human is handling the plant they should be careful not handle it too much because it will produce naturally occuring ranunculin that will than produce protoanemonin. When you get protoanemonin on you, you must be treated for it or it will cause contact dermatitis, but this is only if you handle the plant excessively. The only way you can kill the toxins in the plant is if you dry them, so you can add dry buttercups to hay and other foods fed to livestock.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus] | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
