#Pulsatilla patens x vernalis

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I believe these are all eastern pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens) and spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis) hybrids that are only found in a small area in Finland and are protected just like the original pasqueflower species. I have posted pasqueflower pictures from 2015 and I’d like to check my usual pasqueflower spot each spring, but I have failed to do that the last couple of years. They tend to bloom from late April to early May, and May Day is my usual time for checking them. I also took a picture of their habitat. The flowers are often described as ice age relics, and the habitats they thrive in were formed by the rivers that were flowing under the ice cover as the glaciers were melting and depositing all the sand they had been carrying. These sandy deposits are now known as eskers. They are long tall ridges with species that can live in such well-drained and often dry soil: typically pines and lingonberries.

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Pulsatilla patens x vernalis by johnsson http://ift.tt/1KAxzyx

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Pasqueflowers I photographed in April 2015. I come from a small region in Finland where hybrids of our two pasqueflower species, eastern pasqueflower (Pulsatilla patens) and spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis), are found. This is where their ranges meet. I am not sure which ones of the flowers in these pictures are eastern pasqueflowers, which ones spring pasqueflowers and which ones are hybrids, but they’re all utterly beautiful.

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