noun
- a spring-blooming plant with purple, white, or yellow cup-shaped flowers and feathery seed heads, native to prairie and mountain regions
Usage: botany
Examples
- The pasqueflower is one of the first wildflowers to bloom in spring.
- Purple pasqueflowers dotted the hillside after the snow melted.
- The state flower of South Dakota is the American pasqueflower.
- Pasqueflowers have silky, feathery seed heads that appear after blooming.
- These hardy pasqueflowers can survive harsh prairie winters.
- The botanist identified several species of pasqueflower in the meadow.