I've been waiting for this to flower so I'd know what it is...so, it's flowering now and I still don't know what it is...seems to reseed a lot.
TIA....

Ranunculus, but I have no idea on the species.

Oh! You're so quick! Thank You. I'm only used to the 'frilly multi-petaled' ranunculus. I'll look this up.....

That was an easy one since they are extremely abundant this time of year. Here is the field across the street, a couple of weeks ago.

Having spent 32 years in SoCal, I never encountered them before, but they apparently like the Pacific Northwest....lol..

We have them naturalized in Georgia, too. We grew up calling them buttercups.

It seems odd to me that they are wild here, wild in Georgia, but if they are wild in Texas also, I don't see why I didn't have them wild in SoCal....

Here are distribution maps for species found in North America.

http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMap...

That's a handy tool...thanks!

Well, I can't swear that they are the same exact species but they do look alike. I don't recall which Ranunculus species our "buttercups" are at the moment but I do remember reading that they are a widely naturalized species and not native.

My friend here tells me that they are very hard to get rid of.....but I see no need to try...lol.

Danita if you look at the link I posted, all the ones shown in green are native and the blue are introduced. I counted about 16 species shown for Georgia, of which 9 are native.

When I said "our 'buttercups' " I didn't mean to imply that I was speaking of Georgia's buttercups in general but rather the ones that used to grow in my family's lawn. I know that there are native Ranunculus but the one that grew in our lawn was not. I wish I could remember for sure but it might have been R. bulbosus. I always found them quite pretty but read that they exude allelopathic compounds from their roots so I tried to keep them out of the flower beds and left them to battle the boring lawn grass. Although it looks very similar, I think Sherry's Ranunculus may have slightly finer leaf-lobes than ours did. I don't have any in this yard to inspect closer for sepal orientation and all that other good keying stuff.

It looks like one I have which is determined to establish itself in my garden! I don't mind it in places but it can be 'robust', it sends out runners which root so that might be the reason it appears to reseed a lot but it probably reseeds a lot too!

Look at Creeping Buttercup, Ranunculus repens, the leaves have faint light spots on them. The broader leaves in Sherry's photo I think are the buttercup, the thinner ones look like Geranium. The roots are white and quite strong, they like moist soils.

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

http://www.lawnweeds.co.uk/cre...

You may be right about the leaves, Janet. It's hard to tell from the photo and there are Ranunculus species, like Ranunculus acris for example, that have Geranium-looking, thinner-lobed foliage. Really, both kinds of leaves look like they could possibly be from a Ranunculus species.

I've just gotten up, having my tea and then I'll take more pics. The really large clumps of leaves at the foundation having been weedeater'd by the DH several days ago, I'll see what I can find. They're growing closely all around the foundation of the house. My first thought with these was cranesbill and I was surprised to see the yellow flowers. This was a rental house for years and the extent of gardening was mowing, so spread all through the grass is this buttercup, violets, what I take to be ox-eye daisy, red clover, white clover, one of the 'wild' strawberries...all of which I like and so would be happy to leave, but all lawn will eventually come out and be gravel paths around the plantings.

edited to add that the closest I'd come to 'buttercup' before was the oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda Buttercup) of our previous property. I didn't mind that either, with a couple of acres of it, you may as well give in...lol..plus it is pretty and the bees love it, so....

Aha! A closer look shows two different types of leaves here....lol..









It is the finely divided leaves that first caught my eye and made me think cranesbill....

I would say the Geranium is G. carolinianum, there are some others which look very close but this one matches well. Watch for flowers!

http://www.missouriplants.com/...

http://luirig.altervista.org/f...

The Ranunculus still looks like repens.

Thank You, guys. You are, collectively, a wonderful resource.......

Ranunculus repens for the ranunculus.