Without sounding too extremely feminine and risking all respect of the fellow anglers and extreme adventure freaks, I present to you a little bit of southern culture! Ok maybe not culture…but I thought they looked nice sitting there by the water?s edge. Couldn?t tell if someone had actually taken the time to plant them or if they were wild. I don?t recall seeing many white with yellow centers. Mostly only yellow ones around here.
The other reason for the photo?..well to be honest…my wife and girls love to tease me about a recent country song they now know all the words too. ?I?ve got a new Girlfriend? One of her favorite parts is…?I love it when she calls me buttercup?.
Ok…Now I feel a little sappy and somewhat beyond the point of masculine pride. So I think I?ll get back to fishing! Don?t forget to slow down and sniff the flowers or something like that. Just be careful this time of year they may have a bee in them or worse the dog could have just lifted a leg! Hey maybe that?s why the yellow ones are yellow?!?
Buttercups are poisonous with an itchy skin irritant. Here is an image of a buttercup.
Children like to bring them home to their moms . They will cause a rash on your fingers if you pick them . Fortunately they taste really bitter so the chances of a child ingesting them are very small.
Washing the hands with mild soapy water will usually cure the itch.
All parts of the Buttercup are poisonous. Cattle will seldom graze buttercups and so the plant often stands well above the cropped grasses of many pastures. Chemical ingredients which make the Buttercup poisonous also protect it from soil bacteria. Early settlers used a preparation made from the Buttercup plant to dissolve warts.
Thanks for the education on flowers. I feel a litle more masculine since I didn’t know…LOL.
I called a buddy to go fishing last year and he moaned and said…" I CAN"T!" with a slight wimper like a little child I heard him mumble…“I promised the wife we would go to the PANSY FESTIVAL!” I fell out laughing! The what! I exclaimed. You just wait till I tell the guys you are gong to a PANSY FESTIVAL!
I think he was ready to skin me alive! :lol:
As much as I hate dandelion, I think another Canadian import, at least you can eat the greens and if so inclined make that devil’s brew…dandelion wine!
Hmmm, I’ve heard the dandelion seeds came from France where they were considered very lovely. Translation of the name ‘main of the lion’ became dandy lion, hense
dandelion.
Hi,
I recall as kids we used to pick buttercups and hold them under someone else’s chin. If their chin glowed yellow, you could tell they liked butter (that was the theory anyway) Of course, at that point you usually mashed the buttercup onto their chin and left a yellow stain. I don’t ever recall anything itchy about them?
Although its true that I did take part in a discussion about dainty flowers, please take note that I was extolling the virtues of a deadly very masculine poisionous nasty killer of a plant. Which in no way makes me the least bit like a girley man.
Dandielions can be used in salads , making a coffee substitute, a crude type of flour, in wine making and necklaces for your mom when you break a window which by the way was completely by accident. :oops:
Let the record also show that I have never gone to a pansy festival. :shock:
Ps. Real men do eat quiche because we are secure enough to not give a darn who knows it. So there. :lol:
PPs. namekagon… buttercups are indigenous to north america not just Canada and Dandilions came from Europe where they are cultivated. The pine beetle came from the south and invaded us not the other way round . The bird flu if it gets here comes from asia. Fire ants, Killer bees , yellow perch , bass are all heading our way from the south. We here in the north don,t want them. Knapp weed the scourge of our grasslands came from Russia. Asian milfoil came from asia via European fish keepers. The new scourge of our coasts is the Alantic salmon which is beginning to show up in spawning beds in our rivers. Starlings are European and now I hear that southern bullfrogs are happily destroying our native species.
Whirling disease and zebra mussles are also makeing an appearance. Don’t get me started on european carp either.
The worst scourge of all is the spread of establishments like wally worlds and the golden arches of celulite moving across this great land. There is just one corner in just one of our cities left that doesn’t have a Starbucks on it and we are keeping its location a secret.
I’m still good 
