Cool Pool......

.........with Caltha palustris growing in it and which is probably better known as the Marsh Marigold.

It is is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Ranunculaceae, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It becomes most luxuriant in partial shade, but is rare on peat.
It flowers from April through to the end of July - this one is holding on to the last minute!

One or two BOUI:-

1) Other names: Kingcups. Water Blobs. Horse Blobs. Bull's Eyes. Leopard's Foot. Meadow Routs. Verrucaria. Solsequia. Sponsa solis!!

2) Many years ago a Dr. Withering said:
'It would appear that medicinal properties may be evolved in the gaseous exhalations of plants and flowers, for on a large quantity of the flowers of Meadow Routs being put into the bedroom of a girl who had been subject to fits, the fits ceased.'

3) A tincture made from the whole plant when in flower may be given in cases of anaemia in small, well-diluted doses.

4) The leaves can be cooked and eaten like spinach but I don't think I'll try.

5) The large golden flowers of Marsh-marigold certainly look like the cups of kings and the Latin name Caltha is derived from the Greek for 'goblet'. Caltha Hence, Marsh-marigold is also commonly known as 'Kingcup'.

Sunny with some clouds - a light breeze and temperature reading 68 Deg.F.

Have a nice day!