In this video I am weeding out the dreaded Creeping Buttercup.
INFO: All ranunculus species are poisonous to both animals and humans. If crushed or brushed, the leaves of buttercups release a compound called ranunculin that breaks down into protoanemonin, an acrid, toxic oil. Contact with protoanemonin will mess you up in a dermatitis kind of way, causing burning and itching with accompanying rash and blisters.
You probably won’t see bees going for buttercups as much as they go for other flowers. There’s a notion that the pollen is toxic and this is true for grazing animals. There is some evidence that bees may also suffer the dangerous effects of this toxic pollen but they never really have enough of it for these effects to show.
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I ended up deciding to use some weed killer to get rid of this weed.