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Pulsatilla

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Pulsatilla

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Also known as koniklec

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.

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Pulsatilla is a genus of plants within the family Ranunculaceae. It belongs to the order Ranunculales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta in the kingdom Plantae. The genus is also associated with the section Anemone sect. Pulsatilla. One species within this group is commonly known as the Yellow Anemone.

The native range of Pulsatilla includes Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Austria, the Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, and Bulgaria. Specimen records from institutions such as SDSU, NHMUK, UPS, CM, and CMN are located in the United States, Russia, Sweden, Canada, and the Russian Federation. The genus has been documented in 356,821 occurrences and is the subject of 480 scientific publications.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, iNaturalist, PubMed, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Yellow Anemone

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRanunculales
  5. FamilyRanunculaceae
Native toAfghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria
Observations34,526
Observations recorded356,821

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
244
With media
139
Family
Ranunculaceae
Collections
SDSU, NHMUK, UPS, CM, CMN, UNM
Recorded in
United States, Russia, Sweden, Canada, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan, Andorra

Research

480 papers

via PubMed

~4 min read

Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Species
  • Cultural significance
  • Use and toxicity
  • References

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 pāsaḥ).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pulsatilla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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