Primula laurentiana Fernald

Plants 10-48 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes thin, short; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts usually farinose but sometimes efarinose in age. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole broadly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, oblanceolate to spatulate, 3-10 × 0.4-1.3 cm, thin, margins crenate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 3-12-flowered; involucral bracts saccate, ± equal. Pedicels erect or spreading, sturdy, 5-10 mm, length ca. 2 times bracts, somewhat flexuous. Flowers homostylous; calyx green, campanulate, 5-8 mm; corolla lavender, tube 6-9 mm, length 1.5-2 times calyx, eglandular, limb 10-16 mm diam., lobes 5-8 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules ellipsoid, length 1.5-2 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 72.