yellow marsh marigold
Caltha palustris
RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Habit
- Herb
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer
- Bloom color
- Yellow
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Yellow marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) is a perennial for rain gardens, meadows, and pollinator gardens. It is hardy to USDA zone 2, or down to -50°F (-46°C). This plant likes full sun to full shade and moist to wet soil of most types. Large, buttercup-like yellow flowers open in spring above glossy, heart-shaped leaves, and butterflies, bees, and birds visit them. Deer rarely make it their first choice. Give it protection from drying winter and early spring winds.
Pairs well with Crested wood fern, Blue bead lily, and Paper birch.
Native range
North America, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and 28 more places. See all 32
North America, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Baleares, Buryatiya, Chita, Føroyar, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., New Hampshire, New Jersey, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Tuva, Türkiye, Xinjiang, and Yakutiya.