- Family : RANUNCULACEAE
(Buttercup Or Crowfoot Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : NEELAMABARI FAMILY (नीलाम्बरी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Ranunculaceae
- Synonym(s) : Caltha pumila Schur; Caltha pygmaea (Makino) Makino; Caltha radicans T.F.Forst.; Caltha ranunculoides Schur; Caltha riparia G.Don; Populago palustris (L.) Scop.; Trollius palustris (L.) D.Brândza
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Caltha palustris L.
- Common name : Marsh Marigold, Cowflock, Cowslip, Kingcup
- Vernacular name :
- Mei-bytengdoh (Kh.), Danying khongru (Monpa).
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Damp ground in Fir forests, alpine meadows and marshes, swamps and wet places along streams.
- Comments / notes : At an altitude of about 1800-3000 m; Roots are acrid, poisonous.
- Key identification features : Annual herbs up to 30 em high; rootstocks stout. Radical leaves long petioled, reniform. Flowers solitary, 3 - 7 cm across, terminal, yellow. Follicles many seeded.
- Flower, Fruit : March-August
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Valley of Flowers,Rudraprayag district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district,Kangra district,Kinnaur district,Kullu district,Lahaul & Spiti district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Tawang district,Subansiri district
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Islands, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China, Chita, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Temperate & Subarctic Northern Hemisphere.
- Literature :
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 65
- GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 2. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 305
- Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 1. Published BSI: 10
- P.K. Hajra, D.M. Verma and G.S. Giri. Flora of India, Sereies 2 : Materials For The Flora Of Arunachal Pradesh. Vol. 1. pp. 48.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Caltha palustris. Downloaded on 17 February 2025.
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