Lesser Celandine Questions
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Comments (3)I don't think I will ever be able to get rid of mine. I can spray on the paths, but it has invaded alot of perennial areas. The only way I have been able to keep it from totally taking over everyhing is to pull it and make sure I get those nasty little tubers. However...the good news is...it's gone by June....See MoreLower Celandine Everywhere This Year: Thug?
Comments (4)I think I have this in a couple of places in my garden (I'm getting the weeder immediately), and I think this is the plant my neighbor identified as leopard's bane, that we discussed on the groundcover thread. From the PCA Alien Plant working group (the photos are pretty startling): Ranunculus ficaria L. aka Lesser Celanine ECOLOGICAL THREAT Lesser celandine is an exotic spring ephemeral and a vigorous growing groundcover that forms large, dense patches on the forest floor, displacing and preventing native plants from co-occurring. The ecological impact of lesser celandine is primarily on the native spring-flowering plant community and the various wildlife species associated with them. Spring ephemerals complete the reproductive part of their life cycle and most of their above-ground development before woody plants leaf out and shade the forest floor. Native spring ephemerals include bloodroot, common and cut-leaved toothwort, Dutchman's breeches, harbinger-of-spring, squirrel-corn, trout lily, Virginia bluebells, and many others. Because lesser celandine emerges well in advance of the native species, it can establish and overtake areas rapidly. Here is a link that might be useful: lesser celandine...See MoreLesser Celandine - Edible?
Comments (7)Here's a super random question: might the tubers be poisonous to ducks ? I'm not sure if I just discovered a brilliant way to get rid of lesser celandine, OR accidentally kill mallard ducks, OR if it doesn't kill them, might I be inadvertently causing the LC to spread via the ducks digestive track not "composting" them properly... I just put a big pile of LCelandine into a hole I dug in the center of my compost heap and before I got around to covering it up to let the heat digest them into oblivion, there were 2 Mallard Ducks pecking away at the pile. I don't know if it was a coincidence that there was something else mixed in with the tubers & greens that they were noshing on or if it was the tubers themselves. I know it's a shot in the dark, but any thoughts? Should I cover the heap? Or let them continue to go at it?...See MoreLesser Celandine...
Comments (5)When growing in a planting bed, the easiest form of removal is to dig each clump out. Time consuming I know, but this is really the most effective way to remove all the tubers and bublets from which this plant grows and also its primary means of spreading. Since this is a spring ephemeral - disappears soon after flowering until reappearing early next spring - now is the time to do this, especially before any flowers have time to set seed. I had this in my old garden - actually the more desirable named forms like Brazen Hussy, Dusky Maiden and Damerham, but they all reverted to species. I was pretty diligent about weeding out extras and keeping it confined to a single area and so did't actually object to the plant too much since it disappeared pretty early in the season. But it is one of those plants you simply cannot ignore or it will spread vigorously into parts of the garden you do not want or worse, into wild or natural areas....See Morewell_drained
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