Globeflower
Latin
name: Trollius
europeaeus
Height: 20-40cm
Where: Upland wet meadows and stream sides
When: Flowers May to July
Bigger
and bolder than most buttercups, globeflowers bring sunshine to grey
summer days. Their big, bright yellow spheres shine out by upland
streams, on dripping, grey cliffs and in damp woodlands.
Despite their beauty an old Scottish name for them is witches’ gowan – maybe because like all the buttercup family they are poisonous.
