# The Pasque flower - an Easter rarity, Natural History Museum

The Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) is now a very rare plant in the UK and restricted to just a few chalk and limestone grasslands on a handful of nature reserves. Flowering in April it is a sign that Easter has arrived. Fred Rumsey, Botanist at the Natural History Museum tells us more about this spectacular plant.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: The Natural History Museum
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pasque_flower_-_an_Easter_rarity,_Natural_History_Museum.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: The Natural History Museum
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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