Description
Early May is peak flowering for marsh marigold. I look forward to going to my favorite viewing spots each year; often in roadside ditches, meandering mucky streams, alder swamps, and smaller seeps erupting from the ground. Their bright, buttercup-like (they are in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae), little yellow faces light up the landscape that is still trying to wake up from winter. Even though they aren’t considered to be a true spring ephemeral like liverwort, trillium, or bloodroot, they do exhibit many of the same qualities. Marsh marigold often grows in areas under a tree or shrub canopy, so they have to do their thing while the sunlight is still available. Once the trees and shrubs leaf out, the are often in heavy shade. I have been wanting to offer this plant for a long time, and now I finally have a supply, for now anyway. It would be interesting to see how these plants would do in upland conditions, out of the mucky soils we always see them in, in the wild. Let me know how it works if you try the upland approach!
Well developed plug sized plants (about the size of your clenched fist) at $7 each.
