Plants, Flora

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Illustrations:

Period:

Cattails:

Cattails?,	Siebmacher
Cattails?, Ingeram Codex, f114, 1489	Siebmacher - Schenk, Kolbe

Leeks and garlic:

Italian

Italian armory with leeks, meat on a spit, braids of garlic

Trefoil/clover, redorte, rose branch involved:

Arlberg-Bruderschaft - Virgil Raber, 1548, trefoil/clover with extra long stems and rootlets, courtesy of Gunnvor silfrahar	Siebmacher 1605, a redorte (stylized twisted branches), FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.	Siebmacher 1605, a rose slipped and involved, FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.

Vegetable Lamb:

• Lucas, Rebecca. "The Vegetable Lamb of Muscovy." http://www.medieval-baltic.us/barometz.pdf (includes period images)

An Ordinary of Siebmacher:

• http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/heraldry/siebmacher/f-siebmacher.html (for Flowers)
• http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/heraldry/siebmacher/p-siebmacher.html (for Plants)
• http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/heraldry/siebmacher/t-siebmacher.html (for Trees)

Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:

• Broom (the plant, the Besom is for sweeping)
• Mandrake
• See also bush], créquier, leaf], slip], staff (ragged) tree, vine. See also [Flower, fruit.

Vector Graphics:

• Book of Traceable Heraldic Art
• Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm

Separate articles related to Plants:

• Category:Plants

Sources:

• Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
• Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
• Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html

• New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/
• Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry
• Period Armorials

• Parker's Heraldry - https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm
• Riestap's Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html

A Heraldic Primer [old version]:

Flowers, Trees and Plants - http://heraldry.sca.org/primer/flora.html (now defunct)

The animal kingdom is not the only resource which was drawn upon for period armory. There are many forms of plant life which can be used as charges. These include flowers, trees and fruits/nuts. When a flower has a stem attached, it is termed slipped. When it has a stem and leaves attached, it is termed slipped and leaved. When the leaves of a rose have a different tincture than the flower, they are referred to as barbed and when the center of the rose is a different tincture, it is referred to as seeded.

A rose argent, barbed vert and seeded gules	A thistle argent, slipped and leaved vert	A Fleur-de-lys argent	A trefoil argent

Note that the trefoil and the Fleur-de-lys are stylised representations of flowers.

Trees were also found in armory. Though many different species of trees were used in armory, for purposes of conflict checking, we use the basic shapes of the tree (oval, conical, palm, etc). When the roots of a tree are showing, the tree is termed eradicated and when they are not, it is called couped. When there are no leaves on the tree, it is termed blasted.

An oak tree eradicated	An oak tree couped	A pine tree couped

The fruits from these plants are also the subject of armorial depiction, from humble acorn and garb (a sheaf of wheat), to the pomegranate (badge of Katherine of Aragon).

an acorn	an apple	a garb	a pomegranate

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html]
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Registerability:>

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:

December 2000 - entwined charges maintained:

[A sword inverted argent, entwined overall by a rose purpure, slipped and leaved vert] As drawn, the rose is barely overall. This kind of overall charge has been disallowed for some time. If drawn with a standard entwined rose, it is in conflict with Barbara Fitzhugh de Brandhard, Azure, a sword inverted proper entwined widdershins of a poppy proper. Traditionally, entwined charges are treated like maintained charges unless both charges have equal visual weight. Therefore there is not a CD for the change to the flower. [Kisaiya Zingara, 12/00, R-Atlantial]

http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2000/12/00-12lar.html

Collected Precedents:

• 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - PLANT see also BRANCH
• The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - PLANT
• The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 1st Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - Single HTML Document
• 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -
  • the 1st part (Nov 1993 - June 1994) and
  • the 2nd part (July 1994 - June 1996)
• The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - Collected precedents
• 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -
  • the 1st year (June 1990 - June 1991) and
  • the 2nd year (July 1991 - June 1992)
• The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - Collected Precedents
• The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - Single HTML Document
• The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - Collected Precedents
• The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - Collected Precedents
• The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - Collected Precedents

In the Ordinary:

• Plant - Barley - see Plant - Wheat
• Plant - Borage - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Bouquet - see Flower - Bouquet
• Plant - Bulrush - see Plant - Reed]
• Plant - Cactus (includes ocotillo)
• Plant - Camomile - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Catnip - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Cattail - see Plant - Reed
• Plant - Chamomile - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Clover - see Foil - Quatrefoil
• Plant - Crequier - see Tree - Rounded shape]
• Plant - Dittany - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Fern (includes frond)
• Plant - Flower - see Flower
• Plant - Fruit - see Fruit
• Plant - Garlic - see Plant - Onion
• Plant - Greenbriar - see Plant - Thorn
• Plant - Heather (includes heather bush)
• Plant - Herb (includes borage plant, hyssop, sagebrush)
• Plant - Holly
• Plant - Hyssop - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Ivy - see Plant - Vine
• Plant - Kudzu - see Plant - Vine
• Plant - Ladyslipper - see Flower - Iris
• Plant - Lavender - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Leaf - see Leaf
• Plant - Mistletoe - see Plant - Holly
• Plant - Nosegay - see Flower - Bouquet
• Plant - Ocotillo - see Plant - Cactus
• Plant - Onion - see also Fruit - Other (includes garlic)
• Plant - Parsley - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Ragweed - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Reed (includes bulrush)
• Plant - Rice - see Plant - Wheat
• Plant - Rush - see Plant - Reed
• Plant - Sea weed - see Plant - Other
• Plant - Shamrock - see Foil - Trefoil
• Plant - Sprig (includes slip)
• Plant - Stalk - see Plant - Wheat
• Plant - Strawberry
• Plant - Thistle - see Flower - Thistle
• Plant - Thorn] (includes bramble, briar, thorn bush)
• Plant - Thyme - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Tree - see Tree
• Plant - Vine (includes blackberry briar, briar, heather vine, poison ivy)
• Plant - Wheat (includes corn, stalk)
• Plant - Woad - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Woodruff - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Wormwood - see Plant - Herb
• Plant - Other (includes bird of paradise plant, broom plant, hop, rose bush)