Common names include Eastern pasqueflower, prairie crocus, and cutleaf anemone.

The prairie crocus is an early spring flower often seen pushing through the last prairie snow.

Common names include Eastern pasqueflower, prairie crocus, and cutleaf anemone.

Our first showy spring flower, the Prairie Crocus, blooms.

In CE, we have the examples of "prairie crocus" and "beverage room".

Manitoba's floral emblem is the Prairie Crocus, a hardy pale blue flower which comes out with the spring.

The crest is a beaver, Canada's national animal, holding a prairie crocus, Manitoba's provincial flower.

Surmounting this is a beaver, a national symbol of Canada, holding the province’s floral emblem (prairie crocus) and carrying a royal crown on its back.

The Forks is still home for several native plants including big bluestem grass, prairie crocus, dropseed, and prairie sage.

Each has a collar; an open coronet in red metal with red maple leaves alternating with purple prairie crocus flowers.

Click HERE for further information from Prairie Crocus Regional Library.

The prairie crocus or pasque flower (Pulsatilla patens) belongs to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).

Advocates report that the population of Pulsatilla patens is declining, due to the synergy between the prairie crocus and shortgrass prairie ecosystems.

Manitoba was the first Prairie province to adopt a floral emblem after the prairie crocus was chosen in an informal vote in the province’s schools.

With showy native flowers like wild bergamot, gaillardia, harebell and prairie crocus, encouraging people to garden with native plants is a lot easier!

Common names include pasque flower (or pasqueflower), wind flower, prairie crocus, Easter Flower, and meadow anemone.

Floral Emblem The prairie crocus (Pulsatilla ludoviciana) was adopted as Manitoba’s floral emblem in 1906.

Food Services Relax with our famous Cream Tea in our Prairie Crocus Tea Room.

Prairie Crocus; Pasque Flower (Anemone patens) This tufted perennial stands 10 to 40 cm tall.

Some prairie grasses include big bluestem and spear grasses; and wildflowers include aster, goldenrod, prairie crocus and lady's-slipper.

Look for common yarrow, cut-leaf anemone, rock cress, creeping white prairie aster, milk vetch, late yellow loco weed, goldenrod, prairie rose, prairie crocus, and tiger lily.

Johnny jump-up violas, nodding, ice-white stars of striped squills, luminescent purple chionodoxa and the European pasque flower similar to our prairie crocus have all shown their sunny faces around town.

It contains a significant native rough fescue grassland ecosystem and over 66 native vascular plant species have been found on the hill including parry oat grass, prairie crocus, golden bean, bedstraw and sage.

As a result, the plant life consists mostly of small shrubbery and hardy plants like Opuntia Prickly-Pear Cacti, Pasture Sage and Prairie Crocus which can grow without large amounts of rainfall.

In central and northern Alberta the arrival of spring is marked by the early flowering of the prairie crocus anemone; this member of the buttercup family has been recorded flowering as early as March though April is the usual month for the general population.

Examples include Prairie Crocus, Common Harebell, Western Wood Lily, Shooting Star, Three-flowered Avens, Starflowered Solomon’s Seal, Wild Gaillardia (Brown-eyed Susan), Yellow Lady’s Slipper, Common Butterwort, Elephanthead, and Early Blue Violet.

Common names include Eastern pasqueflower, prairie crocus, and cutleaf anemone.

Cutleaf anemone may refer to two different North American plant species with very similar names: