Pasqueflower or 'Pulsatilla
Vulgaris' is a Spring wildflower described by Geoffrey
Grigson, "The Englishman's Flora", as "a fair claim to being
the most dramatically and exotically beautiful of all English
plants."
Can be
found around the time of Easter and is known as the 'anemone
of Passiontide'. According to legend, "springs from the blood
of Viking Warriors and grows upon their graves."
This
striking, purple wildflower is now very rare in the UK,
restricted to just a few chalk and limestone grasslands in the
Chilterns, Cotswolds, East Anglia and Lincolnshire. |
