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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 ...
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
The Florida marsh rabbit (S. p. paludicola), occupies the peninsular region of Florida, from south of the Florida Panhandle to the upper Keys. There is a region north of Miami along the east coast where this subspecies is not found. The endangered Lower Keys marsh rabbit (S. p. hefneri), is only found in the southern Florida Keys. [8]
Although cats may be regularly fed, they have an instinct to hunt and are responsible for decreasing numbers of beach mice (Peromyscus polionotus), cotton mice (Peromyscus gossypinus), the endangered Lower Keys marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri), the Florida scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens), ground-nesting birds and sea turtle ...
Sonchus palustris, (marsh sowthistle) is a plant native to temperate regions of the Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and western China; Stachys palustris, the marsh woundwort, an edible perennial grassland herb species; Stenochlaena palustris an edible medicinal fern species, used in the folk medicines of India and Malaysia
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]
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.