Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) flowers, Liechtenstein, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Giesbers / Close-up of an Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) Liechtenstein, June 2009

Konrad Wothe / Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) on hillside beneath shining sun, Barakchin Island, Lake Baikal, Russia

Jim Brandenburg / Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) chicks in nest on prairie with Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) group, Minnesota

Nigel Cattlin / White pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Alba') cross section, close up of stamens and stigma, cultivated in garden. Berkshire, England, UK. April.

Ernie Janes / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) growing on the Chiltern Hills Buckinghamshire, England, UK, April.

Ernie Janes / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) growing on the Chiltern Hills Buckinghamshire, England, UK, April.

Adrian Davies / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla ambigua), cultivated in a botanic garden, Surrey, England, UK. Native to Asia.

David Kjaer / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) Martin Down National Nature Reserve, Hampshire

Philippe Clement / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) in flower, with a glacier in the background. Val Veny, Graian Alps, Italy, June.

Alex Hyde / Sulphur pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) close up of seed head. Nordtirol, Austrian Alps, July.

Ralf Kistowski/ BIA / Dane's Blood (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Mike Read / Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina) close-up of flower Haut Plateau Reserve, Vercors Regional Natural Park, Vercors, France, June 2016. Non-ex.

Mike Read / Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina) Haut Plateau Reserve, Vercors Regional Natural Park, Vercors, France, June 2016. Non-ex.

MYN / Dirk Funhoff / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), Grünstadt, Germany. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

MYN / Dirk Funhoff / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), Lorsch, Hessen, Germany. April. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Nick Turner / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering on hillside, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) Nature Reserve, UK. April.

Nick Turner / Pasqueflower Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) Nature Reserve, a dry valley, Gloucestershire, UK. April 2015.

Nick Turner / Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) Nature Reserve sign on the Pasqueflower reserve, a dry valley, Gloucestershire, UK. April 2015.

Nick Turner / Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) Nature Reserve sign on the Pasqueflower reserve, a dry valley, Gloucestershire, UK. April 2015.

Nick Turner / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering on hillside, Pasqueflower Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) nature reserve, UK. April.

Nick Turner / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering on hillside, Pasqueflower Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) nature reserve, UK. April.

Nick Turner / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering on hillside, Pasqueflower Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) nature reserve, UK. April.

Nick Turner / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering on hillside, Pasqueflower Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) nature reserve, UK. April.

Nick Turner / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowering on hillside, Pasqueflower Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) nature reserve, UK. April 2015.

Alex Hyde / Spring Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla vernalis) Nordtirol, Austrian Alps. June.

Sumio Harada / American Pasqueflower (Anemone patens) flowers, Glacier National Park, Montana

Philippe Clement / Yellow alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina subsp. apiifolia) in flower in Val Veny, Italian Alps, Italy, June

Philippe Clement / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) in flower, Italian Alps, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, June

Philippe Clement / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) in flower, Italian Alps, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, June

Philippe Clement / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) in flower, Italian Alps, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, June

Sean Crane / Lupine (Lupinus sp) and Western Pasqueflower (Anemone occidentalis) flowers in field, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

Adrian Davies / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) cultivated specimen, Surrey, England

Pascal Tordeux / Alpine anemone (Pulsatilla alpina alpina) Queyras, France, June.

Radomir Jakubowski / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) fruit at dusk, Vosges Mountains, France.

Thomas Marent / Dane's Blood (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowers, Switzerland

Thomas Marent / Dane's Blood (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowers, Switzerland

Duncan Usher / American Pasqueflower (Anemone patens) flowers, Germany

Konstantin Mikhailov / Eastern pasqueflower / Prairie smoke / Prairie crocus / Cutleaf anemone (Pulsatilla patens) in flower, Orenburgsky State Nature Reserve, Zapovednik, Orenburg Steppe Region, Russia at the border with K...

Konstantin Mikhailov / Eastern pasqueflower / Prairie smoke / Prairie crocus / Cutleaf anemone (Pulsatilla patens) in flower, Orenburgsky State Nature Reserve, Zapovednik, Orenburg Steppe Region, Russia at the border with K...

Konstantin Mikhailov / Preserved wild hilly steppe with feather-grasses and other Graminea, wormwood, sagebrush, tulips, pasqueflower, crossed with brook valleys with alder-tree groves and thick bush, Orenburgsky State Natu...

Kirkendall-Spring / Mountain pasqueflower (Anemone occidentaiis) flowering on Mazama Ridge, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA, August

Michel Poinsignon / Pasque flowers (Pulsatilla vulgaris) in rain, Lorraine, France, April. 3rd Prize in the Other Nature Topics category of Melvita Nature Images Awards 2013.

Kevin Schafer / Western Pasqueflower (Anemone occidentalis), Paintbrush (Castilleja sp) and Lupine (Lupinus sp) wildflowers in summer with Mount Rainier in the background, Paradise Meadow, Mount Rainier National Park...

Kevin Schafer / Western Pasqueflower (Anemone occidentalis), Paintbrush (Castilleja sp) and Lupine (Lupinus sp) wildflowers in summer with Mount Rainier in the background, Paradise Meadow, Mount Rainier National Park...

Kirkendall-Spring / View of the Tatoosh Range from Edith Creek Basin in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA

Rolf Nussbaumer / Alpine Pasqueflower {Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia} blooming, Alps, Switzerland, June

Martin Gabriel / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina) flowering, Alps, Austria

Philippe Clement / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina), Alps, France

Philippe Clement / Alpine pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina), Alps, France

Jim Brandenburg / Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) group growing on prairie at sunset in June, Minnesota

Jim Brandenburg / Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) group growing on prairie at sunset, Minnesota

Jim Brandenburg / Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) chicks in nest on prairie with Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) group, Minnesota

Michio Hoshino / Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) pair backlit, Alaska

Benjamin Olson / American Pasqueflower (Anemone patens) emerging after controlled burn, Minnesota

Jim Brandenburg / Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla sp) flowers, Minnesota

Thomas Marent / Dane's Blood (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flower, Switzerland

Thomas Marent / Dane's Blood (Pulsatilla vulgaris) flowers, Switzerland

Thomas Marent / Pale Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis), Alps, Switzerland

Thomas Marent / Alpine Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla alpina), Alps, Switzerland

Thomas Marent / Alpine Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla alpina), Alps, Switzerland

Radomir Jakubowski / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) photographed in evening light, Saarland, Germany, April.

Radomir Jakubowski / Crab spider (Thomisidae) on seed head of Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) Saarland, Germany, May.

Radomir Jakubowski / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) photographed in evening light, Saarland, Germany, April.

Radomir Jakubowski / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) photographed in evening light, Saarland, Germany, April.

Adrian Davies / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), fluorescing under UV light, studio environment. See also image 01717742 which shows the same plant in visible light.

Adrian Davies / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), visible light, studio environment. See also image 01717743 which shows the same plant in UV light.

Jussi Murtosaari / Hybrid Pasque flower (Pulsatilla patens x vernalis) flowering in pine forest with Green hairstreak (Callophrys rubi) resting on it, Finland, May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina millefoliata) in flower, Mount Terminillo, Lazio, Italy. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Alpine pasque flowers (Pulsatilla alpina millefoliata) flowering a few days after the snow has melt, Emilia Romagna, Italy. June.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina millefoliata) in flower on mountainside, Mount Terminillo, Lazio, Italy. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina subsp millefoliata) in flower, Mount Terminillo, Lazio, Italy. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Alpine pasque flower (Pulsatilla alpina millefoliata) in flower on mountainside, Mount Terminillo, Lazio, Italy. May.

Jussi Murtosaari / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) in woodland. Joutsa, Finland. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiiflora), three seedheads. Dolomites, Italy. July.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia), Beetle resting on flower. Dolomites, Italy. June.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis). Dolomites, Italy. June.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia), Dolomites, Italy. June.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) seedheads towering above Fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conposea) in alpine meadow, view to mountains. Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy. July 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea) flowers and Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) seedheads in meadow, view to valley and mountains. Near Colfosco, Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy. Ju...

Paul Harcourt Davies / Alpine stream flowing through valley in Dolomites, Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla sp) seedheads in meadow. Ciampac, Fassa Valley, Italy. July 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) flowering on slope of alpine meadow. Dolomites, Trentino, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) in Dolomites. Fassa Valley, Trentino, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) in Dolomites, mountain in background. Trentino, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) in alpine grassland in Dolomites, mountain in background. Trentino, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) in grassland. Dolomites, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) in grassland. Dolomites, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) and Alpine snowbell (Soldanella alpina). Dolomites, Italy. June.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) in grassland, mountain huts in background. Dolomites, Italy. June 2019.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Sulphur pasqueflower (Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia) in grassland, mountains in background. Dolomites, Italy. June 2019.

Sandra Bartocha / Small pasqueflower / pasque flower (Pulsatilla pratensis) backlit on beach at sunrise, Prora, Ruegen, Germany, May.

Sandra Bartocha / Small pasqueflower / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla pratensis) at the beach, Prora, Ruegen, Germany, May.

Sandra Bartocha / Small pasqueflower / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla pratensis) on the beach, Prora, Ruegen, Germany, May.

Sandra Bartocha / Small pasqueflower / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla pratensis) on the beach, Prora, Ruegen, Germany, May.

Sandra Bartocha / Small pasqueflower / Pasque flower (Pulsatilla pratensis), at dusk, Meesiger, Germany, May.