Pulsatilla grandis

Large anemone (Pulsatilla grandis)

The Great Big Kuhschelle or Pasque or wholesale Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla grandis ) is a species of the genus Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla ) in a family of the buttercup family ( Ranunculaceae ). You subsp as subspecies of the ordinary Kuhschelle, as Pulsatilla vulgaris. grandis out.

Description

The Great Pasque Flower is a perennial herbaceous plant. In flowering state, it has a growth rate of 10 to 15 ( rarely 5) centimeters, crop maturity 30 to 40 (rarely to 50) cm. Your basal leaves appear in contrast to the ordinary Kuhschelle only towards the end of flowering. The leaves are pinnate twice ( rarely three times) and consist of 40 to 90 wide - linear- lanceolate, four to seven (rarely two to twelve ) mm wide sections.

The flower stays upright in contrast to the otherwise very similar ordinary Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris s.str. ) Even in cloudy and cold weather. The tepals are 35 to 45 millimeters long. Bloom time is from March to April, rarely as early as February. Pollination is by bees and bumblebees.

The fruits are flat, one-seeded nutlets.

Dissemination

The Great Pasque has a Pannonian - Illyrian distribution.

In Germany it is only in Bavaria and Thuringia at home and, since here as subspecies of Pulsatilla vulgaris, strictly protected under the Federal Nature Conservation Act. In Austria it comes in the Pannonian region in the provinces of Burgenland, Vienna, Lower Austria until frequently absent-minded, but the localities are rare. It is considered endangered and is under protection.

It grows on calcareous dry grassland, in grass steppes and in black and pine forests. Can be found in the submontane altitudinal zone.

System

The Great Kuhschelle subsp partly as a separate species Pulsatilla grandis, partly as a subspecies of the ordinary Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. grandis ( Wend. ) Zamels out. As a way it leads the Austrian Exkursionsflora of 2008, as a subspecies FloraWeb and Schmeil - hinge plates.

In Upper and Lower Austria, the two clans form transitional forms.

Use

The species is rarely used as an ornamental plant for perennial borders and rock gardens as well as a cut flower. In the cultivar ' Budapest Variety' is hairy golden yellow the whole plant.

Documents

• M. A. Fischer, K. Oswald, W. Adler: Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. Third Edition, Upper Austria, Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6