Pulsatilla 2017

[Rick R.]

April 8th, Weaver Dunes Scientific and Natural Area, Minnesota, USA.

This is a wild area where vast amounts of pure sand were deposited by ancient giant rivers from the last ice age. Over the millennia, the winds have constantly shifted the sand, building and deconstructing dunes, and there are still a few small areas of active blowouts.  The vegetation is relatively thin in most places, and dune stabilization has been at work for many centuries.  This is one of the environments that our native Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida thrives.  If you look hard, they can be seen in the foreground of the first pic.







In one area, the hillock was stable enough to support a lichen similar to reindeer moss (but cleary, not) and Selaginella rupestris (not pictured).

[Rick R.]

Not much else blooming at this time of year there. Common is the little Ranunculus rhomboideus, and Arabidopsis lyrata (not picutred).

[Hoy]

Beautiful Pulsatilla, Rick!

[Leucogenes]

I am very happy to see pictures of Pulsatilla. Especially at the natural location. What a rare sight. Thanks for pointing, Rick. I love Pulsatilla very in every shape.

Here some of today ... other botanical species will follow.

[Chris Johnson]

Very nice Pulsatillas Rick and Leucogenes.

Pulsatilla halleri ssp. slavica - SRGC seed 2014. First flowering.

[ian mcdonald]

Pulsatilla vulgaris in one of its English habitats. Sorry for poor image.

[Tim Ingram]

Beautifully compact and richly coloured Ian. We used to grow a distinct form of P. vulgaris (gotlandica) that Richard Bird gave me seed of, and it is very like the UK plant and seemed to keep that smaller habit in cultivation. There is one little plant of it on the sand bed, just producing a flower - fingers crossed we might be able to collect seed again and grow more.

[Leucogenes]

I like the gloomy mood in the photo very much, Ian ...

Pulsatilla pratensis ssp. nigricans
Pulsatilla vulgaris ssp. albiflora

[Philip Walker]

Pulsatilla vulgaris

[Rick R.]

Seed for this one was labeled Pulsatilla flavescens. Is Pulsatilla patens ssp. flavescens a synonym?
Pics were taken in evening light.  Flowers are slightly more yellow.

[kris]

Very nice flowers Rick. Is this from your garden.
I am trying to grow them in my garden. So far not successful.
What kind of culture ? Can you please inform.
Krish

[David Nicholson]

Seed for this one was labeled Pulsatilla flavescens. Is Pulsatilla patens ssp. flavescens a synonym?

Wish I'd never looked this up in 'The Plant List' .  Pulsatilla patens is shown as a synonym of Anemone patens, and P. flavescens as a synonym of Anemome flavescens.

[Maggi Young]

Seed for this one was labeled Pulsatilla flavescens. Is Pulsatilla patens ssp. flavescens a synonym?
Pics were taken in evening light.  Flowers are slightly more yellow.

  Looks very vernalis-like to me!!

[Hoy]

  Looks very vernalis-like to me!!

Yes, agree, but vernalis keeps the old, green leaves!

[ruweiss]

This is my P. flavescens from wild seed, I noticed the flower yesterday
in our meadow garden by searching for the Easter Eggs.
The plant is very old and rather shy flowering, I maybe placed it
at the wrong place