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What is a cowslip?

What is a cowslip? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A low-growing plant, Primula veris, with yellow flowers.
  2. Any of several other plants related or similar in appearance
    1. Primula deorum, a flowering plant known as God's cowslip and rila cowslip
    2. Primula florindae, a flowering plant known as giant cowslip and Tibetan cowslip
    3. Primula sikkimensis, a flowering plant known as Himalayan cowslip and Sikkim cowslip
    4. (Canada) marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, a plant in the buttercup family, growing in wet, boggy locations.
    5. Pulmonaria angustifolia, blue cowslip or narrow-leaved lungwort
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There are flowers running the gamut from native wildflowers such as the cowslip to exotic foreigners.
We had some cowslip wine for dinner which I brought from the country with me.
Evelyn also listed cowslip among eight flowers which were to be infused in vinegar and eaten in composed salads or alone.
Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives.
In the damp fields surrounding the streams I found cowslip, self heal and mayflower.
What Sutherland finds in the landscape is quite different, of course, from Palmer's joy in every cowslip, but it is still a form of captivation.

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