Scotland's Flowers in Her Heraldry

[Bugbear]

Over in my Scottish wildflower thread, I mistakenly asked a question about twinflowers in heraldry:

ThistleDown, thanks for posting and discussing the flowers. It's actually my fault for looking things up on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaea
It says about Carl Linnaeus under the "Cultural references" section:

Linnaeus took Linnaea borealis as his own personal symbol when he was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1757. In his Critica Botanica (1737), Linnaeus had used Gronovius' name Linnaea as an example to advocate the use of commemorative personal names as botanical names:

Perhaps one of the experts of heraldry will stumble across this thread and answer the question.

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to ask for examples of flowers that grow in Scotland that also appear in Scottish heraldry?

And, if by chance, anyone happens to know the answer to the question: does Wikipedia mean that flower was used in Carl Linnaeus's arms?

Thank you.

[EagleJCS]

I know that the current Baron of Cowdenknowes has the Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) flower - a vibrant yellow flower found throughout Scotland - on his coat of arms. (First granted to his father in 2004). Three of the flowers appear 'in chief' - at the top of the shield.

I'm not aware of any others, but then I haven't seen that many Scottish coats of arms.

[Livingston]

This is quoted from the achievment of Baron Livingstone, Chief of Clan MacLea (Livingstone)

...and on a compartment embellished of the flower of the Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia Palustris) Proper along with this Motto "NI MI E MA'S URRAIN DHOMH" are set for Supporters two stags rampant Proper attired, collared and chained Or...

[macwilkin]

Our clan society's historian recently published this article in our newsletter regarding our plant badge, the Common Sallow:

http://clancumming.us/common_sallow.php

For years it was believed that the Cumin plant was our badge, due to the depiction of three garbs on the arms of the chief, which were said to be garbs of the Cumin plant.

T.

[Bugbear]

That's an interesting article, cajunscot, thanks for posting the link.

[Bugbear]

Wikipedia does claim that the twinflower is on Carl Linnaeus's "noble family's coat of arms," under the section "Ennoblement," as seen in the quote I copied below.
I'm never sure about Wikipedia, but it does cite Linnaeus: the compleat naturalist, by Wilfrid Blunt as a source for that information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

The noble family's coat of arms prominently features a twinflower, one of Linnaeus' favourite plants; it was given the scientific name Linnaea borealis in his honour by Gronovius.
The shield in the coat of arms is divided into thirds: red, black and green for the three kingdoms of nature (animal, mineral and vegetable) in Linnaean classification; in the center is an egg "to denote Nature, which is continued and perpetuated in ovo." At the bottom is a phrase in Latin, borrowed from the Aeneid, which reads "FAMAM EXTENDERE FACTIS": we extend our fame by our deeds.

I found the discussion on a page of the site " The Armorial Blog" more interesting, and it seems to support what Wikipedia describes and adds more:
http://armorialblog.wordpress.com/20...arl-von-linne/
Maybe that answers my question, and as ThistleDown showed, the twinflower grows wild in Scotland.