Primula mistassinica Michx.

Mistassini primrose (en), Primevère du lac mistassini (fr)

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 5-15 cm, herbaceous; rhizomes thin, short; rosettes not clumped; vegetative parts usually efarinose, sometimes with traces of farina to strongly yellow-farinose when young. Leaves not aromatic, indistinctly petiolate; petiole narrowly winged; blade without deep reticulate veins abaxially, spatulate to elliptic, 5-7 × 0.2-1.6 cm, thin, margins denticulate to almost entire, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 1-5(-10)-flowered; involucral bracts plane, ± equal. Pedicels arcuate, thin, 5-20 mm, length 2-4 times bracts, flexuous. Flowers heterostylous; calyx green, campanulate, 3-5 mm; corolla lavender, tube 5-8 mm, length 1.5-2 times calyx, eglandular, limb 8-14 mm diam., lobes 4-7 mm, apex emarginate. Capsules cylindric to ellipsoid, length 1-1.2 times calyx. Seeds without flanged edges, reticulate. 2n = 18.
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Lvs oblanceolate or spatulate, 2–7 cm, denticulate or entire, long-tapering to the base, glabrous but the lower side often densely farinose with a white or yellow powder that may also appear on the cal; scapes to 2.5 dm; bracts subulate or narrowly lanceolate, 3–6 mm, slightly thickened but not gibbous or saccate at base; fls 1–10; cal 3–6 mm, lobed to about the middle; cor-tube yellow, the limb anthocyanic but generally pale, seldom white, 1–2 cm wide; 2n=18. Rocks, cliffs, and gravelly shores; Lab. to Me. and n. N.Y., w. to n. Ill., Mich., Wis., and Alas. May, June. (P. intercedens)
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.15
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity -
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Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 20
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Images

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Distribution

Primula mistassinica world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Conservation status

Primula mistassinica threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:210225-2
WFO ID wfo-0000483755
COL ID 4MD5N
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Primula pusilla Primula maccalliana Primula mistassinica Aleuritia mistassinica Primula intercedens Primula mistassinica f. mistassinica Androsace primuloides Primula mistassinica var. mistassinica Primula farinosa subsp. mistassinica Primula farinosa var. mistassinica Primula sibirica var. mistassinica

Lower taxons

Primula mistassinica var. macropoda