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#kingcup — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Marsh Marigold or Kingcup flowers, reaching up from the shadows towards the sun, while adding their own brilliance and brightness to the world. Photographed recently at Brandon Marsh, a Warwickshire Wildlife Trust reserve in Warwickshire.

    #Flowers #Flora #Bloomscrolling #MarshMarigold #Kingcup #BrandonMarsh #Nature #NaturePhotography

  2. November 22, 1900
    #OTD #Science & #Flowers: Study of the One Does Not Destroy
    the Love of the Other (The Indianapolis News)

    "[The #Botanist should] keep up the old names as well as the new.

    We must always have our #SweetWilliam, #Kingcup, #SweetCicely, #Loosestrife, #Heartsease, Codlins-and-Creams, & #Feverfew.

    All [these] #Names [have] #Stories. [Their] loss would be a loss to the #Language; their very mention turns thoughts to #Gardens & the pasture #Lands of #Summer gone but come again."