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”COWSLIP”?!?!! Damn the English language for that one!
As a Swede (there for living the the country that can take pride in Linnaeus and his naming of both flora and funa) I take offence to what it has done to my possibly second favourite flower.

”Gullviva”
gull old word for gold or glodish I believe the Norwegians still use it. And viva is a flower family, in English the Primula Ergo “Gold Primula”
And what did the English language do to the beautiful flower that smells faintly but sweetly? It named it after cow dung… in which it apparently is often found growing in fields.
I was most disappointed and annoyed when I learnt this.
Doesn’t only grow in dung, we have many of them popping up in my parents lawn over the years, and my beloved father tends to mow the lawn around them, leaving the beautiful little flowers standing proud and pretty on the otherwise properly mowed lawn…and there isn’t cow dung on their lawn.

Another names for the flower is “Himlanyckel” “celestial key”or "Jungrfru Marias Nycklar" "Virgin Mary’s keys" due to a German abbess in the 1100s, who thought the flower at the end of the steam looked like a gathering of keys.

It’s meaning in the Victorian Language of flowers: Pensiveness and Winning grace

So yes, I love flowers.
my favourite flower Forget-me-nots (Myosotis scorpioides) [link]
Cowslip (Primula veris) You are here
Sun flower (Helianthus annuus) [link]
Cherry blossom(Prunus serrulata) [link]
Bleeding hearts (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) [link]
Arctic starflower (Trientalis europaea) [link]

Description
”COWSLIP”?!?!! Damn the English language for that one!
As a Swede (there for living the the country that can take pride in Linnaeus and his naming of both flora and funa) I take offence to what it has done to my possibly second favourite flower.

”Gullviva”
gull old word for gold or glodish I believe the Norwegians still use it. And viva is a flower family, in English the Primula Ergo “Gold Primula”
And what did the English language do to the beautiful flower that smells faintly but sweetly? It named it after cow dung… in which it apparently is often found growing in fields.
I was most disappointed and annoyed when I learnt this.
Doesn’t only grow in dung, we have many of them popping up in my parents lawn over the years, and my beloved father tends to mow the lawn around them, leaving the beautiful little flowers standing proud and pretty on the otherwise properly mowed lawn…and there isn’t cow dung on their lawn.

Another names for the flower is “Himlanyckel” “celestial key”or "Jungrfru Marias Nycklar" "Virgin Mary’s keys" due to a German abbess in the 1100s, who thought the flower at the end of the steam looked like a gathering of keys.

It’s meaning in the Victorian Language of flowers: Pensiveness and Winning grace

So yes, I love flowers.
my favourite flower Forget-me-nots (Myosotis scorpioides) [link]
Cowslip (Primula veris) You are here
Sun flower (Helianthus annuus) [link]
Cherry blossom(Prunus serrulata) [link]
Bleeding hearts (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) [link]
Arctic starflower (Trientalis europaea) [link]