pasque

plural pasques

1. uncommonA pasque flower.

   Employees of the Spiš Museum havedone research for many years, aimed at monitoring pasques (Pulsatilla Slavica, Pulsatilla subslavica) in the Dreveník area. Pasques are the most characteristic plants of these travertine deposits, […]

   2013, Múzeum Spiša v Spišskej Novej Vsi, Province House - seat of the Spiš Museum in Spišská Nová Ves, Múzeum Spiša v Spišskej Novej Vsi, →ISBN, page 13

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   COMMENTS : The Pasque flower is among the first spring mountain wildflowers to bloom. […] Pasques do not say much, but I infer that their preference harks back to the glacier that put the gravel there. Only gravel ridges are poor enough to offer pasques full elbow-room in April sun.

   2003, Jerry Pavia, Rocky Mountain Wildflowers: Photos, Descriptions, and Early Explorer Insights, Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 53