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Small Pasque Flower

Pulsatilla pratensis

Also called Meadow Pasqueflower

Small Pasque Flower
Photo: Prazak, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Safety
Toxic
Native range
C. & N. Europe to C. Asia
Climate
temperate

About

Pulsatilla pratensis (syn. Anemone pratensis), the small pasque flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to central and eastern Europe, from southeast Norway and western Denmark south and east to Bulgaria. It grows from near sea level in the north of the range, up to 2,100 m (6,900 ft) in the south of its range.

How to grow it

This plant is toxic, but can be dissipated through heat or drying.

Other Pulsatilla plants

Alpine anemone · Pulsatilla bungeana · Narrow-leaf pasque-flower · Northeast Asian Pasque Flower · Greater Pasque Flower · Alpine Pasque Flower · Pulsatilla integrifolia · Mountain Pasque Flower · Pulsatilla nuttalliana · White pasqueflower · Eastern pasqueflower · Spring Pasque Flower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pulsatilla pratensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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