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Calla palustris: marsh calla, wild calla, water-arum Araceae: The plant is very poisonous when fresh due to its high oxalic acid content, but the rhizome (like that of Caladium, Colocasia, and Arum) is edible after drying, grinding, leaching, and boiling. [73] [failed verification] Caltha palustris: marsh-marigold, kingcup Ranunculaceae
A Caltha palustris flower and bud at the Ljubljana Botanical Garden in Slovenia. The generic name Caltha is derived from the Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos), meaning "goblet", and is said to refer to the shape of the flower. [4] The species epithet palustris is Latin for "of the marsh" and indicates its common habitat. [5]
And so is the first description as Caltha palustris by Carl Linnaeus in his Genera Plantarum of 1737. But Linnaeus re-describes the species under the same name in Species Plantarum of 1 May 1753, thus providing the correct name. [5] Caltha palustris is a highly variable species. When the growing season is shorter, plants are generally much ...
Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica spp.) - was introduced to the United States from East Asia, [13] shoots are edible and the roots are used for medicinal purposes. [14] Kudzu (Pueraria spp.) [15] Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), invasive in the United States and Canada. The leaves are edible. [16] Palmer's amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) [17]
Agyneta palustris, a species of sheet weaver found in China; Altica palustris, a species of flea beetle from a family of leaf beetles, that can be found in the Palearctic, including North Africa; Boeckella palustris, a species of copepod that lives in South America; Cephalotes palustris, a species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes
Ranunculaceae (/ r ə n ʌ ŋ k j uː ˈ l eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin rānunculus "little frog", from rāna "frog") is a family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, [2] distributed worldwide. The largest genera are Ranunculus (600 species), Delphinium (365), Thalictrum (330 ...
Pages in category "Caltha" ... Caltha palustris; S. Caltha sagittata; Caltha scaposa This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 18:54 (UTC) ...
Calamus palustris, a rattan palm species in the genus Calamus; Caltha palustris, the kingcup or marsh marigold, a plant species native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere; Cistothorus palustris, the marsh wren, a small songbird species found in North America; Claytonia palustris, a wildflower species in the purslane family known by ...