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marsh marigold

NOUN
  1. swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups

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  • Spring flowers which can be spotted in the wood at this time of year include the yellow celandine, marsh marigold and wood anemone (also known as wind flower).
  • Plants are greater stitchwort, bluebell, devils bit scabious, Himalayan balsam, ragged robin, marsh marigold, quaking grass and lady's smock.
  • The wild grass was tall and green and already there were flowers: oxeye daisies and marsh marigolds and violets. Red Knife
  • There was a marsh marigold in it, with stems a quarter of an inch thick; and in the grass on the verge, but just beyond where the flood reached, grew the lilac-tinted cuckoo flowers, or cardamine. Nature Near London
  • Meanwhile on land, the spring flowers were also showing in some splendour - these spring squill had formed dense mats on some rocky parts of the machair, while the burns were a mass of marsh marigolds in parts.
  • Earlier, three canoeists wended along the quiet millstream on the outgoing tide – passing marsh marigolds and partially submerged trunks of silvery willows towards reed beds, with spears of new growth and the scratchy song of returned sedge warblers. Country Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
  • There were lots of different species, as I recall, pretty typical of seepage swamp: black ash and cottonwood, buckthorn, marsh marigold, Virginia creeper, touch-me-not, wood nettle. FALSE MERMAID
  • With flowers it is the same; the lesser celandine, the marsh marigold, the silvery cardamine, appear first in one particular spot, and may be gathered there before a petal has opened elsewhere. Nature Near London
  • We gathered a few, however, by way of doing our Maying, adding to them some violets scattered along the roadside, and a bunch of the golden flowers of the marsh marigold, which enticed us off the road into a low, boggy spot, by their bright blossoms; a handsome flower, this – the country people call it cowslip, though differing entirely from the true plant of that name. Rural Hours
  • Look, the marsh marigolds we treasured have disappeared this spring gobbled by deer, overrun by reed canary grass but still the redwing blackbird sings. Alice d’alessio | days we are given « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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