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Cowslip

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Cowslip may refer to:

Plants

  • Primula veris, a flowering plant commonly known as cowslip
  • Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
  • Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
  • Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
  • Caltha palustris, a flowering plant known as marsh marigold, kingcup and sometimes as cowslip
  • Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort

Naval ships

  • USCGC Cowslip (WLB-277), a sea going buoy tender
  • USS Cowslip (1863), a United States Navy steamship
  • HMS Cowslip was a Flower-class corvette commissioned 9 August 1941 and scrapped in 1949

Other uses

  • Cowslip (racehorse), a competitor in the 1836 Grand National
  • Cowslip (Watership Down), a rabbit in the novel Watership Down
  • Cowslip (bovine podiatry), a tough plastic shoe used to treat lameness in cattle
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