SCOTTISH PRIMROSE

Primula Scotica

Primrose Family [Primulaceae]  

month8May month8Jun month8Aug

flower
flower8purple
inner
inner8yellow
petals
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stem
stem8round

3rd Aug 2006, Mainland Orkney, Scotland Photo: © Sue Parsons
With 5p coin for size comparison.


3rd Aug 2006, Mainland Orkney, Scotland Photo: © Sue Parsons


Some similarities to : Birdseye Primrose but Birdseye Primrose is much taller and has larger flowers than does Scottish Primrose.

Scottish Primrose grows nowhere else in the World apart from a few places on the north east coast of Scotland, and is very rare inland. Its flowers are a deeper shade of pink/purple than Birdseye Primrose, with a central eye that is also a deeper shade of yellow.

Unusually, it has two flowering periods, May to mid June, and late July to August, but does not flower between late June to early July.

It grows on only short coastal turf or sand dunes.

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Distribution
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SCOTTISH PRIMROSE

Primula Scotica

Primrose Family [Primulaceae]