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character not noticed by any writer is the purple 
colour of the lower sheaths of the leaves, which grow 
in the shade, which in the bulbous crowfoot are 
exposed to the light, and are green or yellowish 
white. . The Bulbous Crowfoot has the rosette habit, 
whilst the Creeping Crowfoot is a trailer. 
The Creeping Crowfoot is generally hairy all over. 
The primary stem, with usually one flower, is 
generally erect, the lateral ones or stoles creeping. 
The root is fibrous. The leaves, as in most of this 
group, are divided into three main lobes, and the 
leaflets deeply cut and cuneate or toothed, the upper 
leaflets on the peduncle single or linear or bifid. 
The calyx is downy. The carpels are glabrous or 
but slightly hairy, and the glands or nectaries are 
provided with a scale. The beak of the carpel is 
long and somewhat curved, with a compressed 
margin. 
The petals are usually erect, and the flowers one 
inch in diameter. 
The Creeping Crowfoot is a perennial, which is in 
bloom from May until August. It multiplies itself 
largely by division of the root and by its creeping 
runners. 
The anthers are ripe first, and discharge their 
pollen towards the outside of the flower, and the 
stamens turn outwards as they ripen, so that they 
do not usually self-pollinate the flower. Bees and 
other insects settling in the centre get dusted with 
pollen and bear it away to another flower. But the 
