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Pulsatilla grandis

Greater Pasque Flower

Family RanunculaceaeGenus Pulsatilla

Violet flowers with domed yellow centers opening on thick silky-hairy stalks, beside a bud still wrapped in gray fur, in dry grass.
FlowerEleassarCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
VioletWikipedia
Native range
Austria, Czechia-Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • The greater pasque flower ranges from Great Britain and western France east to Ukraine, mostly on steppe-like hillsides and meadow slopes, often facing south. In Slovenia it is rare and protected, and it serves as a regional symbol and appears in local heraldry. Wikipedia: Pulsatilla grandis

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1998

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Sow and cover

    Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

No stated waiting before sowing. Then 14 days to germinate.

10% germination in 14 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement — N. C. Deno, 1998 · 2nd Supplement, Pulsatilla p. 56Public domain
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Pulsatilla (Ranunculaceae). P. grandis germ. 70D(10% in 2nd w).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd Supplement, 2nd Supplement, Pulsatilla p. 56. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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