Howard Stern (I) Howard Allan Stern was born on January 12, 1954, in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, to Rae (Schiffman), an inhalation therapist, and Bernard Stern, who co-owned a cartoon/commercial production studio. His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Aside from creeping buttercup, other perennial species include R. occidentalis, the Western field buttercup, identifiable by long, three-lobed leaves extending from the base. R. acris, or Tall buttercup, reaches heights of 3 feet with 1-inch wide blooms. Birdfoot buttercup, R. orthorhynchus, grows to 24 inches and has distinctive achenes or fruit that appear straight and skinny verses hooked like most others.
The two most widely known and available types of butter lettuce in the United States are Boston and Bibb.. These types are so prevalent that their names are frequently interchanged with the terms butter lettuce and butterhead.ed-leaf varieties of butter lettuce feature leaves that are similar to green-leaf varieties but have distinctive edges, swirls or speckles of red on the foliage.