Calflora: Caltha leptosepala

Caltha leptosepala DC.

white marsh marigold

Caltha leptosepala, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Yellow Pine Forest, Red Fir Forest, Lodgepole Forest, Subalpine Forest, wetland-riparian
Wetlands:	Occurs almost always under natural conditions in wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 4500 and 10000 feet
Family:	RANUNCULACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Caltha found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Caltha leptosepala ssp. howellii

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

TJM2:

Caltha leptosepala var. biflora

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 1 / 1 CCH Alpine: 8 / 5 CCH Butte: 19 / 18 CCH Del Norte: 1 / 1 CCH El Dorado: 27 / 26 CCH Fresno: 11 / 11 CCH Humboldt: 18 / 17 CCH Lassen: 2 / 2 CCH Madera: 2 / 2 CCH Mono: 6 / 5 CCH Modoc: 14 / 14 CCH Mariposa: 23 / 21 CCH Nevada: 22 / 16 CCH Placer: 3 / 1 CCH Plumas: 9 / 7 CCH Shasta: 15 / 13 CCH Sierra: 7 / 6 CCH Siskiyou: 60 / 52 CCH Sonoma: 1 / 1 CCH Tehama: 7 / 7 CCH Trinity: 15 / 12 CCH Tulare: 16 / 15 CCH Tuolumne: 14 / 13 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Caltha leptosepala from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (CALE4)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database