| Scientific Name: | Pulsatilla vulgaris |
| Common Name: | pasque flower |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Dissected, Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Even-pinnate, Leaflets stalked, Ovate, Reniform, Incised |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Violet, Purple, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, White, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Basal leaves 5-20cm long x 5-15cm wide, once-twice pinnately compound, deeply and finely divided with a feathery appearance, ultimate segments linear-lanceolate, <2mm wide, bright green, pubescent silvery and fuzzy, basal, to 12cm long; flowers solitary, erect-to-nodding and open-bell-shaped (bloom as the stem elongates and foliage begins to form); fruit achenes in showy spherical clusters (similar to some clematis species). | |