2022Flora - Sheetlets

Pulsatilla grandis Wender. (Ranunculaceae) – Greater Pasque Flower
Perennial herbaceous plant, with dense silvery patent hairs and solitary large flowers. It has about ten basal leaves, crowded at the base in a rosette, three to four times pinnately divided, with (20)40–90 lobes. The flowers are 5.5–8.5 cm in diameter, cup-shaped; pedicels are erect or later slightly bent. It also has six sepals, lavender to lilac-purple, covered with adjacent silky hairs on the outside. Numerous anthers are half shorter than the petals. The fruits are collected at the top of the pedicels, with 3.5–5 cm long, silky hairy styles, which is why they are also popularly called cat’s mustache.