Scientific name: Primula vulgaris Huds.
Common name: Primrose
Description
Habit: A hairy perennial, to 20 cm high.
Leaves: In a basal rosette, oval-oblong, wrinkled, without stipules, gradually tapered to the base, hairy underside.
Flowers: Pale yellow, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 2-3 cm across, solitary on very long flower stalks arising from the rosette; flowers in a population either with a long style and short stamens or with short style and long stamens; sepals 5, fused and 5-lobed; petals 5, fused forming a rather long tube and with 5-lobes; stamens 5, attached to the corolla, opposite the corolla lobes; ovary superior, 1-celled, with many ovules.
Fruits: A capsule, opening by 5 teeth at the top.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, hedges, pastures, banks, sea-cliffs, sand-dunes.Distribution: Very frequent to abundant throughout, absent only from blanket bog.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No