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Scientific name:

Primula florindae

Vernacular name:

Cowslip, Tibetan


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Tibetan Cowslip

Scientific name: Primula florindae Kingdon-Ward

Diagnostic features
Inflorescence with mealy covering.
Leaves abruptly contracted to long petiole, with cordate or truncate base, not mealy, withouth hairs.
Flowers in an umbel on a scape to 60cm, c.(12)15-30mm across, yellow.

Chromosome number: (2n=22).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; by ponds and streams and in marshes where originally planted; several places in North England and Scotland; Tibet.

This species is keyed out on Page 3519 in the Text Key.

Primula florindae (Cowslip, Tibetan)
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