HI EVE!!

Thanks for rattlin me up!! I am starting a Word Doc listing plants--this could take a while --I still type slow and mess up documents from time to time & line to line.
About Buttercups-----some call Ranuculus ( some wild-some garden plants) by the common name Buttercup.They are considered toxic and I have never offered the chucks any.
But we also call Oenothera/ Camissonia/Calylophus by the name Buttercups or Evening Primrose. Chucks love these plants.

Prostrate Spurge — Euphorbia maculata--that weed from hell that grows here in every cracked sidewalk and common in flower beds. There are also some upright cousins that are a curse to gardeners--considered toxic --------chucks love em.
Daylilies are ok---I have not & will not offer Asiatic type Lily to them---not sure why either!

Most everything in the Mallow family is eaten--flowers & leaves.
Roses are ok

Large loose petals are difficult for them as they get hung up in the sides of their mouth when eating. Petals/ leaves still attached to plants are bitten & torn in mouth size pieces--just right. Larger objects are more difficult.
More good food items-mostly cultivated plants--

4 oclocks , sunflowers ( leaves mainly),sweet alyssum, snap dragons, pansies, hibiscus,scutelleria ( skull cap), calendula,salvia, phacelia, zinnia, marigolds, "most " of the daisy/ sunflower/ aster family, ruella, catalpa/ tecoma ,cosmos,coreopsis, honeysuckle, gaillardia ( a favorite),phlox, violets

Of course if availabe-- flowers of Palo Verde, Ocotillo, Dalea, Lotus ( not water lily!!) Lotus AKA Deervetch

More to follow!

David

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