Primula angustifolia Torr.

Alpine primrose (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Primula

Characteristics

Plants 0.5-8 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes stout, short; rosettes often clumped; vegetative parts efarinose. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole narrowly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 1-1.7 × 0.3-1 cm, thick, margins entire or remotely denticulate, apex spatulate, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 1-2-flowered; involucral bracts plane, unequal. Pedicels arcuate, thin, 3-10 mm, length 2-4 times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green, cylindric, 5-8 mm; corolla usually bright rose-pink, sometimes white, tube 5-8 mm, length 0.8-1 times calyx, usually eglandular basally, sparsely glandular distally, limb (7-)10-15 mm diam., lobes 5-7 mm, apex almost entire or emarginate. Capsules cylindric, length 1 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 44.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.01 - 0.08
Root system rhizome
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 20
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Images

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Distribution

Primula angustifolia world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:701549-1
WFO ID wfo-0001105378
COL ID 4MCFZ
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Synonyms

Aleuritia angustifolia Primula angustifolia