Common name:
Common primrose
Family:
Scientific name:
Primula vulgaris
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK
Height:
Up to 20 cm
Habitat:
Grassland, woodland, hedgebanks, hillsides
Flowers:
Up to 40 mm in diameter; a tubular calyx opening to five broad, notched, spreading lobes, usually pale yellow with darker yellow at the base, but sometimes purple, pink or white. The calyx is cylindrical, covered by woolly hairs, and has five small teeth at the top, just below the corolla lobes. Flowers are solitary, at the top of a hairy, usually leafless stalk
Leaves:
Oblanceolate, unstalked, up to 15 cm long, with a wrinkled surface, hairless on top, downy below
Season:
February to June
Rarity:
★★★★★
