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Pulsatilla vulgaris complex
Pulsatilla
Pulsatilla is a genus that contains about 40 species of herbaceous perennial plants native to meadows and prairies of North America, Europe, and Asia. Common names include pasque flower (or pasqueflower), wind flower, prairie crocus, Easter flower, and meadow anemone. Several species are valued ornamentals because of their finely-dissected leaves, solitary bell-shaped flowers, and plumed seed heads. The showy part of the flower consists of sepals, not petals.
The common name pasque flower refers to its flowering period in the spring during Passover (in Biblical Hebrew: פֶּסַח pāsaḥ).
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
European Pasqueflower
speciesPulsatilla vulgaris
Greater Pasqueflower
speciesPulsatilla grandis
Haller's pasqueflower
speciesPulsatilla halleri
Red Pasqueflower
speciesPulsatilla rubra
Slovak pasqueflower
speciesPulsatilla slavica
Pulsatilla × bogenhardiana
hybridPulsatilla × bogenhardiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.227
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.452
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.263
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.224
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.485
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.437
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.792
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.442
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.451
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.451
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.258
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.264
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1616929.