Lesser Celandine Occurrence

Lesser celandine is a built-in abiding accepted throughout the UK in clammy meadows, woods, lawns, hedgebanks and beside streams and ditches. It thrives in comestible affluent clay and is a alarming garden weed. It is adumbration advanced and in backcountry bottom celandine forms allotment of the pre-vernal community. It grows on soils with a pH of 4.4 to 6.9. Growth is poor in dry altitude but the plant dies down in summer and again becomes aggressive to drought.

Lesser celandine is capricious in blade shape, admeasurement and number. Four subspecies are recognised in Britain. Two are built-in and two are garden escapes. Of the two built-in subspecies, ssp. ficaria develops seeds (achenes) but does not anatomy plantils, ssp. plantifera produces few seeds but develops plantils in the blade axils. The above subspecies is diploid and the closing is tetraploid. The two occasionally hybridise.

Lesser celandine has ameliorative and alleviative uses including the analysis of piles. It is poisonous and is said to accept acquired deaths in beasts and sheep.