Flowering with feet in water
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Ihama floodplain with flowering marsh marigolds
| Marsh marigold | Harilik varsakabi |
Grows happily in fresh meadows, ditch bottoms, on the banks of waters bodies, in floodplains, swamp forests, boggy forests – it likes to grow up from water but we won’t find it in bogs. The Estonian name of the marsh marigold, varsakabi, meaning colt’s hoof, refers to the basal leaves that are rounded-heartshaped, reminding of a colt’s hoof, and leathery and shiny; stem leaves are round.
The flowers are unique because they lack petals – what, but it has beautiful, golden yellow, shiny flowers? But that is instead the calyx, the petals of the marsh marigold have disappeared.
The whole marsh marigold plant is slightly toxic and the toxic properties are strongest when it flowers and bears seeds.
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