Hare bells - and sheets of yellow buttercups.

Yesterday's rain had rinsed the landscape clean and brought out the bright greens of the lower daleside, dotted with purple clover, yellow buttercups and celandines.

These dainty yellow buttercups sit on a ruff collar of green foliage.

"One woman's sight," Bates declared, "was corrected by the memory of a yellow buttercup, and another was able to remember the opal of her ring when she could not remember a period."

Dorothy and the Wizard followed the pine-needle trail on through the Pine Forest until finally the trees thinned and they stepped out into an open meadow bright with yellow buttercups.

In early summer, the pastures are green and speckled with yellow buttercups.

After they ate, Mrs. Withers wandered off, picking the crimson poppies and yellow buttercups that abounded there, accompanied, grumbling, by Luke.

She didn't look like her mother any more than a yellow buttercup resembled a yellow rose.

Fortunately, the ruins lay amidst lush meadows of soft grass over a foot high, growing up out of thick moss and dotted with abundant yellow buttercups, yellow dandelions, blue bluebells, white asters, and pink willow-herbs.

For early shows of color, soon after the ground warms or snows melt, there are the sweet yellow buttercups, Eranthis or the snowy white snowdrops, which multiply easily once they have found a garden spot to their liking.