In message , Alan Holmes
writes

I have a large number of these things in my vegetable patch, and most are in
the middle of the strawberry bed, so I cannot dig them out at the moment.

If I just cut off the flowers will that put a stop to new ones appearing?

Alan


1) The commoner buttercup species are perennial, so cutting off the
flowers still leaves you with the old one.

2) The creeping buttercup, Ranunculus repens, also spreads by stolons.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley