A plant or flower with a bald or smooth-topped appearance, possibly a regional or dialectal name for a specific wildflower.
Compound of 'bald' and 'crown,' combining Old English 'bæld' and 'crune' to describe plants with distinctive flat or smooth-topped flower heads.
Medieval people had such vivid descriptive plant names—baldcrown, baldmoney, baldicoot—they basically looked at nature and named things exactly what they saw, which is way more honest than our scientific names!
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