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Psychrophila
Caltha is a genus of rhizomatous perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae ("buttercup family"), to which ten species have been assigned. They occur in moist environments in temperate and cold regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Their leaves are generally heart-shaped or kidney-shaped, or are characteristically diplophyllous (the auricles of the leaf blades form distinctly inflexed appendages). Flowers are star shaped and mostly yellow to white. True petals and nectaries are missing but...
9 branches of this group, most-observed first
Caltha leptosepala
complexCaltha leptosepala
Arrow-leaved Marigold
speciesCaltha sagittata
White Caltha
speciesCaltha obtusa
alpine marsh-marigold
speciesCaltha introloba
Dwarf marigold
speciesCaltha appendiculata
Yellow Caltha
speciesCaltha novae-zelandiae
Caltha dionaeifolia
speciesCaltha dionaeifolia
Caltha × goodalliana
hybridCaltha × goodalliana
Caltha phylloptera
speciesCaltha phylloptera
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 379238.