Question: Creeping buttercup? (Ranunculus repens). Growing in mid-coast Maine, dryish, sandyish, shady. I planted Troillius there a long time ago and …
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Creeping buttercup? (Ranunculus repens). Growing in mid-coast Maine, dryish, sandyish, shady. I planted Troillius there a long time ago and assumed that's what it was b/c of the dense layered flowers, even though the flowers now are much smaller than what I planted. However, I recently noticed the clump was slowly expanding and I had a closer look. The leaves seem a dead ringer for R repens (tho also for Troillius - same genus), but the flowers are totally wrong. My plant apps say R repens.
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Dear sweetferngarden, good morning. I agree with you that your plants are not a species of Trollius--that is a very different plant in the crowfoot family. The typical form of Ranunculus repens that is naturalized in New England has somewhat different leaves and has light-colored "water marks" in the sinuses of the leaflets. But, technical details suggest this could be Ranunculus repens (a cultivated form). Best wishes.
