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Floating marsh marigold

Caltha natans

Also called Floating Marsh Marygold

Floating marsh marigold
Photo: pellaea, CC BY 2.0
Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
E. European Russia to N. Korea, Subarctic N. America to NC. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Caltha natans is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family. It goes by the common name floating marsh marigold.

Where it grows

Caltha natans has an amphi-Beringian distribution, being found in both North America and East Asia. In Asia, it is found in Siberia, Mongolia, and the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Nei Mongol. In North America, it is found in Alaska, the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, North West Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario, and in a small part of the contiguous United States (in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin).

Other Caltha plants

Caltha appendiculata · Caltha dionaeifolia · Alpine Marsh Marigold · White marsh marigold · Yellow Caltha · White Caltha · Marsh-marigold · Arrow Leaved Marigold · Entire Leaf Marsh Marigold · Marsh marigold

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caltha natans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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