GLOBEFLOWER

common name for any plant of the genus Trollius of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup 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, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.

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books on: Globeflower  - 12 results

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Physical Geography of Asiatic Russia
Book by S. P. Suslov, Noah D. Gershevsky, Joseph E. Williams; W. H. Freeman, 1961
Subjects: Physical Geography--Asiatic Russia
...such species as: Parnassia palustria , Allium victorialis , globeflower Trollius asiaticus , columbine Aquilegia glandulosa , and...Dracocephalum altaiense . Certain forest plants, such as globeflower, grow, but their growth is dwarfed. In the moister depressions...
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Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R
Book by L. S. Berg; Macmillan, 1950
Subjects: Botany--Soviet Union, Physical Geography--Soviet Union, Zoology--Soviet Union
...robertianum , 200 meadow, 46 Geranium geranium G. albiflorum , 270 G. robertianum herb Robert geranium , 200 Ginger, European wild Asarum europaeum , 58 , 80 , 271 Gleditschia caspica Caspian honey locust , 239 Globeflower Trollius , 282
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Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Book by Gillian Beer; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Darwin, Charles--1809-1882--Influence, Eliot, George--1819-1880--Knowledge--Natural History, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Evolution (Biology) In Literature, Evolution In Literature, Hardy, Thomas--1840-1928--Knowledge--Natural History, Literature And Science--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Narration (Rhetoric), Nature In Literature
...and the air began; and ran away under the road, a stream large enough to turn a mill; among blue geranium, and golden globeflower, and wild raspberry, and the bird-cherry with its tassels of snow. 14 15 Watched over always by the Irishwoman soot...
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Wyoming, a Guide to Its History, Highways, and People
Book; University of Nebraska Press, 1981
Subjects: Wyoming, Wyoming--Guidebooks
...sky. Wild geranium, harebell, sulphur flower or umbrella plant, windflower, columbine, calypso, buttercup, mallow, globeflower, golden- rod, sunflower, shooting star, prickly pear, primrose or rock rose, night- blooming mentzelia, and many...
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Advances in the Study of Behavior - Vol. 34
Book by Peter J. B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Timothy J. Roper, Charles T. Snowdon, H. Jane Brockmann, Marc Naguib; Academic Press, 2004
Subjects: Animal Behavior, Human Behavior
...similar but independently evolved interactions have been discovered. These include the senita cac- tus-senita moth and globeflower-Chiastocheta fly interactions. The key questions for these mutualisms include what limits the number of eggs laid per...
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Problematic Figurations of the Nation as I-Land: A Phenomenological Report on Half-Knowledge from "Any Isle of Lethe Dull"
Journal article by Joshua David Gonsalves; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: British literature--Criticism and interpretation, Criticism--Analysis, Literary criticism--Analysis, Romanticism (Literature)--Analysis
...apparently benign image of "globed peonies": "The peony or globeflower ... belongs to the same family of poisonous plants, Jussieus...displaced form of a flower of rhetoric. If a peony is a "globeflower," to grasp a fistful of peonies is to hold "the wealth...


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Shale Tales
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 105, August 1996
Subjects: Colorado, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Fossils, National parks
...forested slopes that surround the meadow. Where the woods are relatively open, a mariposa lily, a wild geranium, the globeflower anemone, and Porters aster can be found. On several rocky hillsides, where water runoff is severe, the habitat is dry...


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newspaper articles on: Globeflower  - 7 results

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Spiky Plants Look Sharp in a Garden Setting
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 15, 2006
Subjects: Timber
...plants that have globe-shape flowers, such as flowering onions (Allium), or lilylike flowers, such as daylilies. Globeflower also works, thanks to bright, ball-shaped buds on wiry stems. Holland counts ornamental grasses as sharp, because of...
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Finding the Right Plant to Grow under a Tree
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 16, 2000
...enjoy ferns and hostas. And you can count on shade-loving perennials such as astilbe, baneberry, columbine, corydalis, globeflower, masterwort, Siberian bugloss, timber phlox, toad lily and wood aster to provide a parade of color. Finding perennial...
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Wild Flowers Are Back in Our Upland Hay Meadows
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 16, 2011
...are found close to their southern boundary in the North Pennines, species like wood cranesbill, melancholy thistle and globeflower, for example. Since May 2006, the North Pennines AONB Partnership through its Hay Time project, funded by the County...
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Rare Wild Flowers Are Making a Comeback
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), June 17, 2011
...are found close to their southern boundary in the North Pennines, species like wood cranes bill, melancholy thistle and globeflower, for example. Since May 2006, the North Pennines AONB Partnership through its Hay Time project, funded by the County...
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New Exhibition at Hannah's Meadow
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 13, 2006
...vernal grass and crested dogs tail. The abundance of wild flowers includes ragged robin, yellow rattle, wood cranesbill and globeflower. Chairman of CDENT John Wearmouth says: "Hannahs Meadow is a gem ( a little bit off the beaten track ( but well worth...
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encyclopedia articles on: Globeflower  - 2 results

 
 
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Globeflower
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GLOBEFLOWER common name for any plant of the genus Trollius of the family Ranunculaceae...flower parts incurved in a globe shape, is most commonly cultivated. Globeflowers are classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida...
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Buttercup
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...known representatives are the aconite , anemone , baneberry , bugbane , clematis (one of the few vine genera), columbine , globeflower , hellebore , hepatica , larkspur , love-in-a-mist , marsh marigold (the American cowslip), meadow rue , and peony...


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