🪶Indigenous / Native American🏞️Appalachian Folk Medicine
Marsh Marigold
Caltha palustris
About Marsh Marigold
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American and Appalachian Folk Medicine traditions to help with Skin Health, Fever, Wound Healing, and Warts, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Caltha palustris, known as marsh-marigold and kingcup, is a small to medium size perennial herbaceous plant of the buttercup family, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It flowers between April and August, dependent on altitude and latitude, but occasional flowers may occur at other times.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both