The tutor discusses a find yesterday that has him guessing.

Yesterday, clearing foliage from between some paving stones, I noticed an orange flower. In fact, it was going to seed: the petals had collapsed, but still clung to the pistil. There seemed to be five, and they were orange. This plant was among a colony of creeping buttercup, and seemed to be that, as well. (Interestingly, none of the rest of the colony is flowering, so there were no other blooms for comparison.)

The question: can creeping buttercup flowers be orange? I seem to recall they can be, but wanting confirmation, I searched the internet. Two sites suggest that creeping buttercup flowers can be orange: mountainnature.com and kuleuven-kulak.be

I’ll be talking more about yard finds in future posts:)

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.