Trollius pumilus

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Height: 4 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4. to 10 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Width: 12 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun, part-sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 5 to 9
Flower features: orange, yellow
Scientific Names

Ranunculaceae >

Trollius >

pumilus >


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Read about Trollius pumilus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Trollius pumilus, Don. St. 1 ft. or less high, from a horizontal rootstock, the base bearing old lvs., with few lvs. on the st. and those above the middle: lvs. small, 1-2 in. diam., orbicular, thickish, 5-parted, the segms. broadly obovate and 3-lobed: fls. 1 in. across, solitary, yellow; sepals 5 or 6, rounded, notched at the end; petals 10-12, about equaling the stamens, cuneate-oblong: follicles many. Alpine Himalaya.

Var. yunnanensis, Franch. St. to 2 ft. high and sometimes 3-fld.: lvs. narrowly dentate, the teeth short and rigidly mucronate; cauline lvs. 1 or 2: sepals 6-8, broadly ovate or suborbicular; petals long-clawed, shorter than stamens. W. China.—Described as horticulturally not unlike Caltha palustris, but superior, with dark green lvs. and bright golden yellow salver-form fls. CH


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