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globeflower

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globeflower, common name for any plant of the genus Trollius of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup buttercup or crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae, a family of chiefly annual or perennial herbs of cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
..... Click the link for more information.  family), hardy perennials of north temperate meadows and swamps. Their blossoms are larger than those of the familiar yellow buttercup and may be white, yellow, orange, or purple. T. europaeus, with flower parts incurved in a globe shape, is most commonly cultivated. Globeflowers are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.
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People inevitably walk around the edges of muddy puddles rather than through them, and the path has been gradually widening, while the grassy edges - which in spring and summer should be full of rare flowers such as the pretty yellow globeflower - are slowly getting narrower.
Help flown in to protect beauty spot by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
The globeflower and the pink ragged robin will be among plants joining the waterspurslane, which was discovered in the Stewart Park's Wetland Conservation Meadow last year.
Rare flowers for park by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
The globeflower has gorgeous yellow blooms in spring and loves a sunny spot with a fertile soil.
Your garden: Pippa Greenwood's gardening column by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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