Plants, Flora

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Illustrations:[edit | edit source]

Period:[edit | edit source]

Cattails:[edit | edit source]

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

Leeks and garlic:[edit | edit source]

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


Trefoil/clover, redorte, rose branch involved:[edit | edit source]

CloverPlant.png Siebmacher1605 redorte branch.jpg Siebmacher1605 rose-slipped-involved.jpg
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:[edit | edit source]

An Ordinary of Siebmacher:[edit | edit source]

Modern:[edit | edit source]

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:[edit | edit source]

Vector Graphics:[edit | edit source]

Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project[edit | edit source]

Separate articles related to Plants:[edit | edit source]

Sources:[edit | edit source]



A Heraldic Primer [old version]:[edit | edit source]

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.

rose.gif thistle.gif FDL.gif trefoil.gif
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.

tree.gif treecouped.gif pTree.gif
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).

acorn.gif apple.gif garb.gif pomegranate.gif
an acorn an apple a garb a pomegranate


Precedents:[edit | edit source]

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.

Definition:[edit | edit source]

Registerability:>[edit | edit source]

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:[edit | edit source]

December 2000 - entwined charges maintained:[edit | edit source]

[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


Identifiability:[edit | edit source]

Collected Precedents:[edit | edit source]

In the Ordinary:[edit | edit source]