Globeflower
Trollius × cultorum
Also called Trollius and Globe flower
Garden plant · PerennialsThe one perennial in this file that will not take a dry summer — it is a wet-meadow plant and a week of drought in June costs it the next year's crown. Pondside or heavy clay is where it earns its keep.
Care at a glance
- Ease
- Medium
- Water
- Every 3 daysWater the ground — water at the base, in the morning, not over the leaves.
- Light
- Sun to part shade, in ground that stays damp
- Feed
- Every 45 days
- Humidity
- Average to high
- Hardiness
- Very hardy RHS H7, to -25°C
- Size
- 0.6 m tall · 0.45 m across
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Origin
- A garden hybrid of northern-hemisphere meadow species
Is it safe for pets and people?
No animal-poison authority lists this plant either way.
Nobody has checked this one against a source for us yet, so treat it as unknown rather than safe.
Neither the ASPCA catalogue nor the RHS harmful A–Z names this plant, and both were checked. That is an absence and not a clean bill.
Checked against ASPCA and RHS on 2026-09-22. Where a source says nothing, we say nothing.
A guide, not veterinary or medical advice. If a pet or a person has eaten a plant and you are worried, call your vet or doctor now — don’t wait for signs to appear. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
First signs of trouble
- The leaves go brown at the edges and the whole clump dies back in July as though it were autumn. It has run out of water; a plant that does this two summers running usually does not come back the third.Drought check · disorder
- A grey bloom over the cut leaves, always on a plant that has been dry at the root — on this one mildew is a symptom of drought rather than of damp.Powdery mildew · disease