Ranunculus
Ranunculus asiaticus
Persian Buttercup · Carlsbad · 7 March 2026
The Persian buttercup in the Flower Fields at Carlsbad, bred for over a century into the densely layered, paper-thin-petalled forms grown commercially today. The wild species is a much simpler five-petalled flower from the eastern Mediterranean and south-west Asia.
Fields like this are planted from tubers each autumn and timed to peak in early spring, which is what fifty acres of a single genus in bloom at once takes.
Birds, insects, plants and other wildlife, mostly from Brooklyn, with some from further afield.
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