This garden plant stopped me in my tracks on my walk to the local park. Purple, silken flowers were lit up by a golden boss of stamens; the foliage throwing a silvery mist into the mix.
I’ve never seen pulsatilla growing wild in the UK, and perhaps I never will. This increasingly rare wildflower must be a magical sight. The young, emerging foliage is covered in long hairs creating a halo effect around the buds.
Its tendency to flower around Easter has inspired the folk names Pasqueflower and anemone of Passiontide.
For more about Pulsatilla vulgaris, check out The Wildlife Trusts’ website, a resource created by 46 independent charities with a shared mission to protect wild places and help people get closer to nature.
To see them growing wild on Therfield Heath, take a look at Frogend dweller’s post.
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Susan Rushton 
A very beautiful flower with quite a regal colour combination. I think it strange that vulgaris which in latin means “common”, is the origin for our modern word vulgar which means something else.
I was thinking along those lines when captioning the picture.
I will take your bursts of colour. Thank you
My pleasure!
I have heard of this one, but never seen it. The flowers look like a weird anemone.
The flowers often look more demure than this cluster does.
Wow! What fabulous complementary colours 🤩
I can’t see a passing pollinator missing this one!
No! 🐝