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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lori S. on May 17, 2011, 03:45:03 AM

Title: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Lori S. on May 17, 2011, 03:45:03 AM: This little Pulsatilla has been in my trough for some years but it seems I never noted its name! It has finally bloomed this year. The leaves are very flat - about 1cm tall - and the flower stalks are up to 6-7 cm tall. The flowers are quite a dark purple (in case my photos do not show the same on different monitors). Can anyone identify it, please?
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Thanks,
Lori
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Lesley Cox on May 17, 2011, 05:50:56 AM: I hope you get a name for it Lori because it is a real cutie, so tiny.
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Carlo on May 18, 2011, 12:42:24 PM: Lori,

I'm going to follow this JUST to find out what this stunner's name is. (Then if you come east into the Toronto area, BRING SEED!).

Congratulations on finding a beauty!
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Darren on May 18, 2011, 12:52:06 PM: Agree with Lesley and Carlo, what a beauty.
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: mark smyth on May 18, 2011, 01:14:09 PM: I'll swap some Pulsatilla seeds with you ;D
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Lori S. on May 18, 2011, 01:19:01 PM: I'm pretty sure now that it's P. campanella - I had ruled this out for some reason but a couple of the fine folks at the NARGS site caused me to rethink it. I must have bought 2 plants and somehow failed to label this one on my trough map - it took forever to bloom as compared to the other plant, so I have been wondering about it for some time.

Carlo, I can certainly send you seed a little later on. I have been sending seed from the other plant to the SRGC and NARGS seedexes... but will have that much more this year - my other plant is producing 14 flowers this year!! :D

Thanks all.
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Lori S. on May 18, 2011, 01:22:05 PM: Love to, Mark. It will take some time before seed is ready here (just so you know).
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Tim Ingram on May 18, 2011, 08:52:24 PM: Is it campanella or turczaninovii? I have grown the latter and was struck by the strong colour of the flowers - the leaves are also beautifully cut. I also have a wonderful form of vulgaris (ssp. gotlandica) which has short stemmed deep purple flowers, but more open than yours.
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Lori S. on May 18, 2011, 09:44:21 PM: I also grow P. turczaninovii and find its leaves to be rather different, and the flowers distinctly blue rather than purple - also a bigger plant than this one.

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Well, on second thought, the leaves are not greatly different on P. turczaninovii as you noted, Tim... somewhat different, but I wonder how much of that may be individual variation?
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I still feel it is most likely P. campanella, from comparison to my other plant.
Title: Re: Unknown Pulsatilla
Post by: Lori S. on May 29, 2011, 04:21:03 AM: Despite having leaned to P. campanella before... now I'm leaning to P. turczaninovii... ??? Does anyone know the definitive differences between these two?