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marsh marigold
Caltha palustris
Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium size 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 other times.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.124
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.144
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.214
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.264
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.56
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.609
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.490
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.148
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56224.