"Buttercup" or "Daffodil"

[Mom-to-3]

Spring has sprung in Tennessee and the daffodils are blooming. But the folks around here call them buttercups. I have explained over and over that buttercups are a totally different flower, but folks raised around here don't believe me.

What do you call them?

 

[shep]

daffodils

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

This is how I refer to them!

Buttercups

and...

Daffodils

 

[ILUVDXL]

To me buttercups are small yellow flowers. (no trumpets in the center) As kids we would put them under our chins and if the flower reflected yellow on the skin, you loved butter. My problem, however was the difference between daffolills and johnquils. (both have center trumpets)

 

[browneyes]

Usually buttercup, but sometimes daffodil.

 

[helenabear]

Exactly what Belle said... butter cups and daffodils are two totally different flowers to me!

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Originally posted by helenabear
Exactly what Belle said... butter cups and daffodils are two totally different flowers to me!

Originally posted by ILUVDXL
To me buttercups are small yellow flowers. (no trumpets on the center) As kids we would put them under our chins in if the flowere reflected yellow on the skin, you loved butter. My problem, however was the difference between daffolills and johnquils. (both have center trumpets)

<center>ditto .</center>

 

[crazyforgoofy]

and she said it with beautiful pictures that make me ache for warm weather!

It's been raining and my basement looks like a small stream is running through it but I keep telling myself that the rain will bring Spring....... It may also have to bring the backhoe and some drainage tile but what the heck.

 

[Blondie]

Two completely different flowers!

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Buttercups are weeds. Daffodils are flowering bulbs. They are not alike at all. Interesting that the terms should become intertwined!

Our daffodils are starting to bloom here in Vancouver.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Daffodil

Buttercups are tiny little flowers and as a kid we would pick one and hold it under another persons chin to see if they like butter or not. LOL

 

[mickeyfan1]

Jonquils have short trumpets. I believe daffodils and maybe jonquils can be verigated, ie white petals and yellow trumpet. Hmmm, this looks like a question for the Flower and Garden board.

I also know buttercups as in the above picture.

I wonder what is coming up in front of the house I am living in, I see some green stalks breaking through.

 

[olena]

daffies are daffies.