Scientific Name: Trollius europaeus
Common Name: globeflower, common European globeflower
Family Name: Ranunculaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia, Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Irregular
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Perennial border
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Dentate, Incised, Serrate
Flowers: Cyme, Yellow, May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Brown, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal, with long petioles, palmate blades up to 15cm wide, deeply divided into 3-5 ovate toothed lobes (also leaves on stem, sessile, with 3 ovate lobes); flowers globe-shaped with 15-20 inward curving tepals, late spring to early summer, to 5cm wide.