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Caltha palustris (yellow marsh marigold; yellow marsh-marigold; yellow marshmarigold)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium size perennial herbaceous plant of the family Ranunculaceae, 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.
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Infraspecies

Caltha palustris var. araneosa
Caltha palustris var. barthei
Caltha palustris var. cornuta
Caltha palustris var. laeta
Caltha palustris var. membranacea
Caltha palustris var. minor
Caltha palustris var. palustris (yellow marsh marigold)
Caltha palustris var. polypetala
Caltha palustris var. radicans
Caltha palustris var. sibirica
Caltha palustris var. typica
Caltha palustris var. umbrosa

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Screening - Summer [3]  Porous
Screening - Winter [3]  Porous
Bee Flower Color [2]  UV-Green
Flower Color [3]  Yellow
Foliage Color [3]  Green
Fruit Color [3]  Brown
Bloom Period [3]  Mid Spring
Drought Tolerance [3]  None
Edible [4]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [3]  High
Flower Type [4]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [3]  80 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [3]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [3]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [3]  Summer
Growth Form [3]  Single Crown
Growth Period [3]  Spring
Growth Rate [3]  Slow
Hazards [4]  The whole plant, but especially the older portions, contains the toxic glycoside protoanemonin - this is destroyed by heat; The sap can irritate sensitive skin;
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [4]  Perennial
Pollinators [4]  Bees, Beetles, Flies
Propagation [3]  Container, Seed
Regrowth Rate [3]  Slow
Root Depth [3]  8 inches (20 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [3]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [3]  Medium
Seeds Per [3]  553999 / lb (1221359 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [3]  Semi-Erect
Structure [6]  Herb
Usage [4]  A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers; It is used as a dye when mixed with alum, though it is not very permanent; Plants can be grown for ground cover when planted about 45cm apart each way;
Vegetative Spread Rate [3]  None
Flower Conspicuous [3]  Yes
Height [4]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [4]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [3]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [5]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [5]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [5]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [5]  Wet
Water Use [3]  High
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Parasitized by 
Phytomyza calthophila[10]
Puccinia calthae[8]
Puccinia calthicola[8]
Ramularia didyma[10]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 5ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 10Ecology of Commanster
♦ 11del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 12Mosquin, T., and J. E. H. Martin. 1967. Observations on the pollination biology of plants on Melville Island, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Field Naturalist 81:201-205.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0