Habitat: damp places
Soil: with plenty of humus
Height: 70 cm
Flowering: early summer
Width: 30 cm
This genus consists of plants for damp places, with large flowers, usually yellow, and includes the globeflower, Trollius europaeus, so familiar in the Alps.
Trollius europaeus SDR6306 is an excellent plant, good for a herbaeous border (if it is not too dry) or a bog garden. The globular, buttercup-yellow flowers are freely produced on tall stems.
| Trollius asiaticus is the beautiful Asian globeflower, with finely divided bronze-green foliage and bright orange or dark yellow blooms. | |
| Trollius chinensis differs from most Trollius species in not having globular flowers, but wide-open cups. They are the usual bright yellow (although orange-flowered forms of this species exist). | |
| Trollius chinensis 'Golden Queen' is a fine selected form of this species. | |
| Trollius x cultorum 'Lemon Queen' is an attractive cultivar with pale yellow bowl shaped flowers above finely divided toothed leaves. | |
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| Trollius europaeus 'Lemon Supreme' is a compact form of the globeflower with lemon yellow flowers rather than the usual buttercup yellow. | |
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| Trollius europaeus SDR5473 makes clumps of tall stems, with deeply divided leaves, and almost perfectly spherical, lemony yellow flowers on tall stems. Excellent in the garden, so long as the driest locations are avoided. | |
| Trollius ircuticus is a good tall plant for a pond edge or bog garden. On tall stems it produces rounded, bowl-shaped orange flowers with a ring of conspicuous stamens. | |
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| Trollius patulus is dwarf in stature, but with giant buttercup-yellow flowers are appropriate for a king. It has deeply dissected palmate leaves and open cup-shaped flower. It is also sometimes known as the kingcup, although that is applied also to Caltha palustris. | |
| Trollius pumilus is clump-forming and in spring produces deep golden flowers which are often flushed red on the outside. | |
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| Trollius SDR2713 has very short stems with bright yellow flowers. It came from a very poor area of wet pasture, an opening in the forest, at about 4000 m. | |
| Trollius yunnanensis is clump-forming with glossy, lobed basal leaves and large, open, bright yellow flowers. From S. W. China. | |
| Trollius yunnanensis orange-flowered is an orange-flowered variety. | |
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| Trollius yunnanensis SDR4816 grew under the shade of shrubs beside a stream, in soil that was probably permanently wet. It has bright yellow flowers. |