{"id":16941,"date":"2016-07-19T20:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=16941"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:27:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:27:25","slug":"botany-can-creeping-buttercup-flowers-be-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/botany-can-creeping-buttercup-flowers-be-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Botany:  can creeping buttercup flowers be orange?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor discusses a find yesterday that has him guessing.<\/h1>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<p>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:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainnature.com\/Plants\/PlantsLatinNameResult.asp?ID=392\">mountainnature.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven-kulak.be\/bioweb\/?lang=en&#038;detail=311\">kuleuven-kulak.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking more about yard finds in future posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/botany-can-creeping-buttercup-flowers-be-orange\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Botany:  can creeping buttercup flowers be orange?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,181,1218],"tags":[1732,1731],"class_list":["post-16941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-lifestyle","category-yard-work","tag-can-creeping-buttercup-flowers-be-orange","tag-creeping-buttercup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16941"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions\/16948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}