Caltha introloba is an extreme example, flowering under the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Alps montane grasslands] Reference
Loren Larson, managing partner with Caltha, a Minneapolis-based environmental consultant for private industry. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
I forget, however, that it would be impossible, I suppose, to get hardly any except the Caltha, and if ever I stumble on that plant in seed I will try it. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
He gives from many that might be used, the example of marshmarigold (Caltha palustris) which has over eighty local names in Britain, about sixty in France and over one hundred and forty in Germany. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 4] Reference
And there is this in favour of its being the flower meant, that the name signifies the golden blossom of the marish or marsh; but, on the other hand, the Caltha does not fulfil the conditions of Shakespeare's. From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
At this moment one of them was starred with thousands of greenish-white marsh marigolds -- Caltha leptosepala, as I learned afterward to call them, when good Mr. Clark produced, out of his treasures new and old, for my enlightenment, a much-desired copy of Brewer and Watson's Botany of California. From Wordnik.com. [On Foot in the Yosemite] Reference
Lettuce, for its milky juice obviously, appeared in two bunches on the front of the waist of a woman into whose house I had broken by leaning against a screen door, and a lawn bordered by cowslips, our common name for Caltha palustris, certainly represented a certain lawn that a friend told me had been kept mown by the cows feeding upon it when driven from pasture. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Height, 1 ft. Caltha. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
Caltha palustris L. Wahlbergella apetala (L.). From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) and turtlehead. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
Caltha radicans p 824 18. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference
Caltha. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Caltha palustris. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Caltha, 376. From Wordnik.com. [Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium] Reference
Media, Caltha, and Thlaspi. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Cutwode's "Caltha," 211, 368. From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
Caltha, 136, 148, 295 palustris, 141, 250, 442, 500. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Marigold, Marsh Cowslip Caltha palustris 105, 142, 165. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Hypecoum, Sagina, Gymnandra, Artemisia, Caltha, Dracocephalum. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
See also Thynne's "Emblems," No. 18; and Cutwode's "Caltha Poetarum,". From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
Species of Nothofagus, Pseudopanax, Caltha, Aristotelia, Coprosma, and Orities demonstrate Tasmania’s Gondwanan heritage. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian temperate rain forests] Reference
The bogs comprise characteristic species, many with austral affinities such as Astelia, Bolax, Caltha, Donatia, Drapetes, Gaimardia, Lepidothamnus and Phyllachne. From Wordnik.com. [Magellanic subpolar forests] Reference
Other endemics of eastern Siberia are: Megadenia bardunovii, Oxytropis calva, O. leucantha, Viola alexandroviana, Senecio lenensis, Salix saposhnikovii, Juncus longirostris, Gastrolychnis angustifolia ssp. tenella, Caltha serotina, Papaver variegatum, Draba sambykii, Thymus evenkiensis, Potentilla jacutica, Artemisia czekanowskiana. From Wordnik.com. [East Siberian taiga] Reference
A few examples of conspicuous endemic or nearly endemic species found in this ecoregion are grasses such as Deschamsia kingii, Festuca cirrosa, Poa darwiniana, P. yaganica, and herbs or subshrubs such as Onuris alismatifolia, Ourisia fuegiana, O. ruelloides, Senecio eightsii, S. humifusus, S. websteri, Nassauvia latissima, Acaena lucida, Perezia lactucoides, Viola commersonii, V. tridentata, Phyllachne uliginosa, Lebetanthus myrsinites, Nardophyllum bryoides, Caltha dioneifolia, Hamadryas magellanica, Ranunculus sericocephalus, Gavilea australis, Olsynium obscura, Valeriana sedifolia, Abrotanella submarginata, A. trilobata and A. emarginata. From Wordnik.com. [Magellanic subpolar forests] Reference
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