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Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold [1] and kingcup, is a small to medium sized perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It flowers between April and August, dependent on altitude and latitude, but occasional flowers may occur at ...
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 ...
Lupinus perennis (blue flower) and Caltha palustris shown in a plate from Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1906). Lupinus perennis is used as foodplants by the caterpillars of several Lepidoptera.
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 ...
Caltha palustris, marsh-marigold or kingcup, a plant species native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere; Chionanthus palustris, a tree from Borneo; Claytonia palustris, a wildflower species in the purslane family known by the common names Jonesville springbeauty and marsh claytonia; Coespeletia palustris, a wildflower native to the ...
Caltha palustris is a hygrophyte. A hygrophyte (Greek hygros = wet + phyton = plant) is a plant that inhabits moist areas and is intolerant of dry conditions. [1] The species may inhabit wet and dark forests and islands, dense swamps, and wet meadows. Within the group of all types of terrestrial plants, they are least resistant to drought. [2] [3]
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Marsh cinquefoil (Potentilla palustris) Marsh hawk's-beard (Crepis paludosa) Marsh-marigold (Caltha palustris) Marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris) Marsh valerian (Valeriana dioica) Marsh violet (Viola palustris) Meadow thistle (Cirsium dissectum) Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) Orchids (Orchidaceae) Ragged robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)