Pasque flower (Pulsatilla)

Start seeds indoors in early spring. Maintain a temperature in the growing medium of 70°-75° until germination, which takes 3-4 weeks.

Pasque Flower plants are deciduous, clump forming, perennial wildflowers that are native to the alpine meadows of western Europe. They have silky, finely divided, pale green fern-like foliage that grows 10″ high, with a 12″ spread. Early in the spring, before the foliage even emerges, they begin producing attractive, nodding, 2″-4″, primarily purple flowers with conspicuous yellow centers. The flowers are followed by showy, feathery white seed heads.