Reviewed by Debra LaGattuta Lenten rose (Helleborus x hybridus) is not a rose; it's a perennial hybrid hellebore belonging to the buttercup family. The name origin of "Lenten rose" refers to the plant ...

Hairy buttercup is the only one of these three that has sepals (the structures like little petals but beneath the petals) that point downwards once the flower has opened up. The sepals in creeping ...

The buttercup is found only in the Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula in Western Alaska. The Arctic flower is imperiled by climate change, facing threats from increased precipitation, rapidly ...

In spring and summer, it has the typical buttercup flower with shiny yellow petals. Creeping buttercup is commonly found in the herbicide strips of orchards and in waste places because it is tolerant ...