Pasque Flower

Pulsatilla vulgaris

Rare & localized in parts of the British countryside.

The finely-dissected leaves are arranged in a rosette and appear with the bell-shaped flower in early spring.

The purple flowers are followed by distinctive silky seed-heads which can persist on the plant for many months.

The flower is 'cloaked in myth'; one legend has it that Pasque flowers sprang up in places that had been soaked by the blood of Romans or Danes because they often appear on old barrows and boundary banks.

Flowers from March-May.