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Creeping buttercup was sold in many parts of the world as an ornamental plant, and has now become an invasive species in many parts of the world. [3] Like most buttercups, Ranunculus repens is poisonous, although these poisons are lost when dried with hay. The taste of buttercups is acrid, so cattle avoid eating them. The plants then take ...
Species & synonyms Common names Native range Illustration Ranunculus abaensis W. T. Wang = R. indivisus var. abaensis [2]: Ranunculus abchasicus Freyn ex Sommier & Levier [3] [4] ...
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The familiar and widespread buttercup of gardens throughout Northern Europe (and introduced elsewhere) is the creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens, which has extremely tough and tenacious roots. Two other species are also widespread, the bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus and the much taller meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris .
Cooper was born in Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. [4] Although he did not come from a farming background, he started farming at age 13 by helping out at a dairy farm. [5] He rose to public prominence when he appeared in Clarkson's Farm as an experienced farm hand helping novice farmer Jeremy Clarkson at Diddly Squat Farm.
Bitter Harvest is a 1981 American drama television film directed by Roger Young, from a teleplay by Richard Friedenberg, based on the 1978 book of the same name by Frederic and Sandra Halbert. The film stars Ron Howard , Art Carney , Tarah Nutter, and Richard Dysart , and chronicles the Michigan PBB contamination incident .
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley.It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name.
Ruth Gervis (13 August 1894 – 26 October 1988) was a British illustrator. [1] [2] Together with her sister Noel Streatfeild she illustrated the 1936 book Ballet Shoes. [3]Her other book illustrations include The Buttercup Farm Family, The Pole Star Family, The Saucy Jane Family and The Very Big Secret.