Old fashioned yellow button flower

9 years ago

A friend has been hunting for this wild meadow flower for a couple years. There are quite a few perennials out there with the "Button Flower" description after their names and I've purchased two thinking I had the right one. Wrong. Now I realize she's looking for the yellow wild flower that resembles the buttercup, only with the bloom having a slightly mounded center and small petals surrounding it, and the green serrated foliage. Not Tansy or the straw flower with the silver foliage.

If anyone knows a source for this plant I would be so grateful. My friend is a good person who deserves some sunshine right about now and if I could find this flower she would be so happy. Thanks.

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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK

9 years ago

The pictured plant is a daisy type flower so not what I'd think of as buttercup-like. The pictured plant looks like an Anthemis, perhaps Anthemis tinctoria. Aka Cora tinctoria. It's not a US native but is naturalised in some areas.

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faerygardener z7 CA
9 years ago
Santolina? (the green one, green lavender cotton) http://plantlust.com/plants/5376/santolina-virens/
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
9 years ago
In what part of the world was this plant seen?

Sanvitalia procumbens aka Hussar Button?
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9 years ago
one of the ranunculous tribe? T.acris, r,graminifolius, r.bulbosa...in single and double iterations.

Cephalaria?

One of the centaureas?
schoolhouse_gw
Original Author
9 years ago

This is the only photo I could find online of what I'm sure my friend is thinking of. It's labeled as "meadow button flower" - she calls it "yellow buttons". See how it resembles a wild butter cup? Only the bloom is different, esp. the center.

flora, it's a wildflower found in the USA, and in our state of Ohio.
schoolhouse_gw
Original Author
9 years ago
Yes, I think you are right -the flower in my posted photo is the Cora tinctoria. Native or not, it's been a wildflower here for as long as my friend remembers and called "yellow button flower". The foliage is definitely wild butter-cup-like, perhaps that is what she meant.

I copied the info to file. Further Googling found an Amazon site selling seeds but I'll speak to my friend first to see if she wants to order there or continue to search locally. Maybe I got the wrong flower again anyhow. ha. Thanks, flora.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
9 years ago
Another candidate is Glebionis segetum. Corn Marigold. Also naturalised in N America. I have to be honest with you that I still don't see much resemblance with buttercups, even in the foliage.
Embothrium
9 years ago
I have to be honest with you that I still don't see much resemblance with buttercups, even in the foliage

Agree.
rginnie
9 years ago
there is a yellow matricaria....maybe a little different leaf
schoolhouse_gw
Original Author
9 years ago
Ok, I actually went out to look at my wild buttercups in the garden and down in the orchard. Yeah, different foliage. The meadow button flower in the pic I posted has foliage more nearly like Fever Few doesn't it? I really can't tell from the photo.

Anyway, thanks for your replies.