Lesser Celandine: The Beautiful Menace

I've been taking a Spring Wildflower class through Nature Forward, a local environmental organization here in the Washington, DC area (highly recommended, BTW, Clare Walker is an amazing teacher). As part of our class, we were sent out into the "wild" to look for native wildflowers. Well. I was very taken by this cute little yellow flower with dark green heart-shaped leaves. Lesser Celandine, as I was dismayed to learn, is not a native Maryland wildflower. It's not even a well-behaved non-native. It's highly invasive in the United States, so much so that people despise it here. Interestingly, the plant is reasonably well-controlled in its native Europe. Online opinion of this plant varies greatly depending upon what part of the world folks live in! I decided to research Lesser Celandine for my class project, and I thought I'd share my slide show with you here.