Marsh Marigold Plant (Caltha) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-7b Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Herbaceous Perennial

Flower Color:  Purplish Blue

Flower Size:  .25″ Blooms on 5″ Panicles

Flowering Period:  Mid to Late Summer

Flower Type:  Small, tubular flowers packed on spikes

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Medium to Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-40F / Zones 3-8), Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect

As its name suggests, Marsh Marigold prefers life on the marshy side. It is perfect for planting and growing in sunny to partially shaded garden areas where the soil tends to stay mucky and wet, or even in shallow standing water or the margins of the garden pond. It forms a dense mound of attractive, glossy, heart-shaped, dark green leaves with wavy edges. From early spring through early summer, cute and abundant 1″ cup-shaped, buttercup-like flowers with six waxy, bright yellow sepals (petals) surrounding a cluster of bright golden-yellow stamens sit just above the foliage. An easy-to-grow North American native that will always have you looking forward to its spring color show, and you might be happy to know that, due to the levels of alkaloids and glycosides in the leaves, the deer, rabbits, and other pests leave the Marsh Marigold alone. 

Marsh Marigold flowers attract beneficial pollinators, and wood ducks and other fowl eat the seeds.

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