A very rare survivor; a wild Pasque Flower

Photographed this morning on Therfield Heath near Royston in Hertfordshire, the Pasque Flower is now a very rare plant in the wild, lost from many of its former locations. More than 99% of the UK's Pasque Flowers are now found on just five sites in the UK.

Pasque Flowers grow on short turfed grassland, usually on well-drained chalk slopes. Another name for them is ‘wind flower’, and it’s no surprise: its favoured sites can be somewhat windswept during the early spring.