Perennial cultivar of the Ranunculaceae family, selected from Trollius ledebourii, a species native to eastern Siberia, Manchuria, and northern Japan, where it grows in wet meadows, stream banks, and marshy clearings.
The plant forms an upright and vigorous clump, reaching 60 to 90 cm in flowers, with deeply cut palmate-lobed leaves, a true medium green, borne on long, sturdy, and branched stems.
What distinctly sets this cultivar apart from the European globular-flowered globeflowers is the open structure of its flowers. The sepals are widely spread, a bright and luminous orange-yellow, framing a very full center of narrow, upright, and fringed petals — nectaries transformed into staminodes — which form a dense and bristling tuft at the heart of the flower. This radiant and generous aspect gives 'Golden Queen' an immediate presence in any composition.
In its natural habitat, the species blooms from June to July. In cultivation, this cultivar blooms from June to August, sometimes with a slight resurgence if the plant is divided or refreshed after the first bloom.
It requires deep soil, constantly fresh to moist, rich in humus, in full sun or partial shade. It is perfectly suited to the edges of water features, wet meadow gardens, and naturalistic borders.