Botanical name: Primula lacerata    Family: Primulaceae (Primrose family)

Jagged-Petal Primrose is a powdery perennial herb. Flowers are borne atop a leafless stem 8-30 cm long, finely velvet-hairy, in a 2-5 flowered umbel. Flowers are blue to bright pink; tube 1-1.3 cm long, limb 1.5-2.5 cm wide, petals obovate, tip 2-parted with both lobes jagged. Pin flowers have stamens at middle of flower tube; style 5-7 mm long, protruding. Thrum flowers have stamens toward tip of flower tube; style about 2-3 mm. Bracts are lanceshaped, 3-7 mm long, axils with small stalked leaves at fruiting. Flower-stalks are 0.5-1.5 cm long, elongated to 3 cm in fruit, velvet-hairy. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped to tubular-bell-shaped, 6-7 mm long, finely velvet-hairy, parted to middle, 5-veined; sepals ovate, pointed to blunt. Leaves are in a rosette at the base, ovate-rounded to nearly-round, 2-6 x 2-5 cm, obscurely crenulate, rounded to blunt, base heart-shaped, hairless, both surfaces glaucescent, lateral veins 4-6 pairs; leaf-stalk 1-7.5 cm long, finely velvet-hairy. Capsules are included in sepal-cup and disintegrated at maturity. Jagged-Petal Primrose is found in Arunachal Pradesh to China (Yunnan) and NW Myanmar, at altitudes of about 2500 m. Flowering: March-June.

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