Ranunculus aconitifolius (aconite-leaf buttercup, bachelor's buttons) is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to central Europe.

Bachelor's buttons is a common name for several plant species:

It is also sometimes referred to as bachelor's buttons or featherfew.

By midsummer we could not see out the windows for the foxglove and the bachelor's buttons.

The yellow ball was day lilies, the blue ball was bachelor's buttons.

"That's a lovely centerpiece of bachelor's buttons and cowslips, Eleanor.

This is a delightful perennial with daisylike flowers suggesting oversized bachelor's buttons.

He dug up old flowers, clearing the colorless bed for new flats of bachelor's buttons and phlox.

Both were graced with edible nasturtiums and bachelor's buttons from the owners' backyard organic garden.

Mr. Button claimed he planted bachelor's buttons and salvia "uglynosa" for himself.

Bachelor's buttons, a term that denotes a plant with spherical-shaped flowers, was created as a metaphor of the male testes.

Cornflower or bachelor's buttons: 18 inches; fluffy round flowers in purple, white or pink.

Think of the low ones you can't stoop to tonight, she thought, the nasturtiums, the pansies, the bachelor's buttons, the ragged robins.

Pansies filled in the lower level, and bachelor's buttons peeked out from hiding among the taller plants like secret prizes for the cunning examiner.

Among the easiest hardy annuals to sow on snow are larkspur, sweet peas, Shirley poppies and bachelor's buttons.

Ranunculus aconitifolius (aconite-leaf buttercup, bachelor's buttons) is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to central Europe.

Sky-blue drifts of bachelor's buttons flowed seamlessly into hot spots thick with hunter-orange and fire-engine poppies, behind which rose great sunflower towers.

Visitors follow a mowed path across bright meadows scattered with wildflowers: bachelor's buttons, Queen Anne's lace, black-eyed susans and daisies.

IN Bristol, Va., the flower gardens are gone to weeds, the bachelor's buttons, the roses and the sweet william choked out by vines and nettle and jimson.

I particularly loved the platinum squares of four different varieties of wheat, each bed sprinkled with bright blue bachelor's buttons and random red poppies, the runaway flowers of early summer.

Inside, bands of children ran between the dining tables covered with pale yellow linen cloths, and graced with wicker centerpieces filled with bachelor's buttons, baby's breath, and yellow rosebuds.

III The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock.

When her father died, she asked that daisies and bachelor's buttons in white wicker baskets be placed at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York to make it look "like Lasata in August."

Common chicory is also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons, and wild endive.

Hardy annuals, like cleome, annual poppies, sweet alyssum, bachelor's buttons and love-in-a-mist, will survive a light frost and can be sown directly in the garden as soon as the forsythia is in flower.

These salads came from the three-quarter acre garden, one of Hollyhock's principal beauty spots, equally devoted to produce and flowers, from giant kale and Swiss chard, to herbs, showy dahlias and sweet bachelor's buttons.

Recorded foodplants include Myrica, Calluna, Vaccinium, Salix, Betula, Ranunculus aconitifolius, Comarum palustre, Lysimachia nummularia and Menyanthes trifoliata.