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Because horses aren't capable to pick flowers, it's their way to enjoy the sweet fragrance of the buttercups.

I'm kidding of course. When a horse stands in a stable all winter long and also got a lot of concentrates with basic grains too, it has gotten a lot of starch from grains inside its intestines. The intestinal flora of the horse must be 'adjusted' accordingly. The horse in the pasture however, confronted suddenly with tender grass, can be dealing with 'protesting' intestines because they are filled with 'wrong bacteria'. Horses can eat buttercups in a limited way (they are not palatable to the horse) in order to discharge these wrong bacteria because buttercups contain Protoanemonin, which has the same property as antibiotics.

This image taken in the springtime of 2016 is my entry for Manic Monday.