![]() Offers little information beyond range and botanical description.Ĭalifornia Natural Diversity Database: The searchable authority on rare and endangered species.Ĭalifornia Native Plant Society, Marin Chapter: The go-to experts on local plants. PLANTS database: like CalFlora but nationwide. Plants For a Future: This database of edible and useful plants is searchable in all kinds of ways (eg, species that taste like chocolate) and summarizes info on collection, use and cultivation. Native American Ethnobotany Database: summaries of the traditional uses of the plants of North America.įorest Service ecology database: A WEALTH of information-from habitat to human and wildlife uses to effects on livestock. Jepson eFlora: The best technical botanical descriptions around of California plants. What Grows Here: A great search tool for what is in your zip code, watershed, etc. Search by name, county, plant type, and more. Plant of the day: Tiburon mariposa lilyĬalFlora: The name says it all.Plant of the day: serpentine monardella. ![]() Nature coloring for kids (and grownups).Unlike some types of buttercup, this one is happily lacking in stickery, spine-covered seeds. It likes meadows and wetlands, and is equally likely to grow in wetlands and non-wetlands. This flower can grow in low moist fields and streambanks, in forest understory, and on shrub-covered hillsides. Indigenous people made bread and porridge from a flour of dried, pounded seeds of California buttercup. It turns out that this game goes back a long ways, as it is listed as a traditional use of the plant by the Kashaya, Pomo and other native tribes in this part of the world. I loved butter, and thought the game was great fun–though now it seems that was the point, since the trick would work on everyone. If a buttercup placed beneath your chin made your skin looked yellow, then you liked butter. Look for the bright flowers with many petals (between 7 and 22 of them) atop slim, straight stems with deeply divided leaves.īuttercups were one of my favorite flowers as a kid, mostly because of a silly game my parents would play. California buttercup ( Ranunculus californicus) is a common sight in much of California. The shiny, sunny blooms of buttercups are starting to show up–a sure sign that spring is coming.
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