Plants Poisonous to Livestock

Smallflower Buttercup (Ranunculus abortivus) Smallflower buttercup grows as an annual or biennial reproducing by seed. Stems are slender, slightly hairy, branched from the base, reaching six to twenty inches tall. Lower leaves are round, palmately veined, bright green, with round-toothed margins and are borne on long stems arising from the base of the plant. Upper leaves are borne on shorter stems, alternate, and divided into three to five leaflets with somewhat toothed margins. Flowers are small, yellow, with five to seven oblong petals.

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