caltha palustris

Questions about caltha palustris

What does caltha palustris mean?

caltha palustris means "swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups".

What is another word for caltha palustris?

Close synonyms include marsh marigold, kingcup, meadow bright, May blob, cowslip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is caltha palustris a common word?

caltha palustris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.