marsh marigold

a yellow-flowered plant, Caltha palustris, of the buttercup family, growing in marshes and meadows; cowslip.

Origin of marsh marigold

First recorded in 1570–80

At the verge of the water, a thick green plant of marsh-marigold has one or two great golden flowers open.

The Hills and the Vale |Richard Jefferies
The marsh-marigold leaf will answer, or you can cut out water-lily leaves from oak or maple.

Mother Nature's Toy-Shop |Lina Beard
In the three oblongs on this page, the marsh-marigold shapes have been used in three ways.

Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) |Hugo B. Froehlich
Look at the sketch of the marsh-marigold, and then at the small drawings at the right.

Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) |Hugo B. Froehlich

Others are quite harmless, as the marsh-marigold, so well known as cowslips, or the "greens" of early spring.

Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 |Various

marsh marigold

a yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plant, Caltha palustris, that grows in swampy places Also called: kingcup, May blobs, (US) cowslip