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A very vigorous and distinctive double flowered form. Doesn't produce seed, so will flower all through the summer. In 1989 I wrote in a catalogue: "Most noxious of weedy weeds, why do you have to have such a charming double form?" Which sums up the situation. Rosemary Castle wrote: "Vigorous form of creeping buttercup with tightly double golden-yellow flowers tinted green in the centres that are prolific and very long lasting (Flowers have been noted in late October!)" John Gerard illustrates two double buttercups, of the second seems a reasonable description of R. repens. He says: "The double yellow wilde Crowfoote hath leaves of a bright greene colour, with manie weake braunches trailing upon the ground, whereon do grow verie double yellow flowers like unto the precedent, but altogether lesser. The whole plant is likewise without anie manifest difference, saving that these flowers do never bring forth anie smaller flower out of the middle of the greater as the other doth; and also hath no Turnep or knobbed roote at all, wherein consisteth the greatest difference. The first is planted in Gardens for the beauty of the flowers, and likewise the second, which hath of late beene brought forth of Lancashire unto our London Gardens, by a curious gentleman in the searching foorth of Simples Master Thomas Hesketh, who found it growing wilde in the towne fields of a small village called Hesketh, not far from Latham in Lancashire." |
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