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Chinese Globeflower

Trollius chinensis

Also called Large Petal Globeflower, Northern Globe Flower

Chinese Globeflower
Photo: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0

Chinese globeflower is a hardy perennial with cup-shaped golden-orange flowers, native to cool, moist meadows and wet ground across northern Asia. It does best in cool summers with consistently moist soil.

Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially in spring and summer.
Soil
Moist, fertile, humus-rich loam; tolerates heavy clay if it stays damp.
Temperature
Hardy to around -30 °C; prefers cool summers and struggles in hot, dry conditions.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Siberia to S. Russian Far East and N. China (to N. Henan)
Climate
temperate

About

Trollius chinensis, the Chinese globeflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, found from southern Siberia to the southern Russian Far East, Sakhalin, the Kurils, Mongolia, Korea, and northern China (to north Henan). Its cultivar 'Golden Queen' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Other Trollius plants

Asian Globeflower · Yunnan Globeflower · Globeflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trollius chinensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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