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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Plant Height: 9 to 12 inches (20-30cm)
Plant Spread: 9 to 12 inches (20-30cm)
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Mauve
Pink
Purple
Red
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Alpine Gardening
Uses: Will Naturalize
Propagation: Seeds: Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Other info
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant

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Common names
  • Pasque Flower
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Pulsatilla grandis subsp. grandis
  • Synonym: Anemone pulsatilla subsp. grandis
  • Synonym: Pulsatilla donetzica
  • Synonym: Pulsatilla vulgaris subsp. grandis

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Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium Date: 2009-04-11
Location: My Garden Date: 2012-05-03
Location: Carson City, NV Date: 2020-04-11
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium Date: 2010-04-28
Location: z5a, Smith College Botanical Garden Date: 2012-04-19
Location: Western Washington Date: 2012-04-21 Full blossom
Location: West Valley City, UT
Location: Utrecht Botanical Garden Date: 2023-03-25
Photo credit: El Grafo
Location: University of Tartu Botanical Gardens, Estonia Date: 2023-05-09 Pulsatilla grandis f. moravica
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. Date: 2016-04-06 Flowers emerge much earlier than foliage.
Location: Lincolnshire, England, UK Date: Apr 8, 2011 Pink Anemone Pulsatilla
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3. Date: 2012-06-15 In seed.
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Location: My garden in N E Pa. Date: 2015-06-03
Location: Maine Date: 2014-12-02
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin Date: 2023-05-11
Location: Pittsburgh, PA Date: 2014-05-27
Location: Kamloops, BC, Canada Date: 2013-04-12
Location: West Valley City, UT
Date: 2013-04-11
Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar, B.C. Date: 2016-04-06 "Pulsatilla grandis blooms before the leaves come up, and has a h
Date: 2013-04-01
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium Date: 2008-04-09
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium Date: 2009-04-09
Location: Calgary, Alberta Date: 2012-05-15 Pulsatilla vulgaris ssp. gotlandia
Location: Wallington Hall, Northumberland, UK Date: 2015-03-20
Location: Salem, OR Date: 2013-03-31
Location: Carson City, NV Date: April 2, 2020
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Comments:
  • Posted by okus (Lincolnshire, UK) on Sep 23, 2011 5:03 PM concerning plant:
    When they have flowered, do not deadhead; the seedheads are most attractive feathery concoctions that are as decorative, if not as colourful, as the flowers.

    They do well in poor sandy/stoney soil.
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  • Posted by dorab (Calgary - Zone 3a) on Nov 23, 2012 10:05 PM concerning plant:
    Grown from seed in its second year. There is a dark blue dot in the inside of the flower. As noted below this is typical of many dark colored pulsatilla flowers.

    [edited November 24, 2012]
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