Lemon-Yellow Primrose is a perennial herb with yellow
flowers 2-3 cm across, most often with rounded, prominently toothed
petals, many in a loose umbel, or sometimes with two superposed umbels,
borne on a flowering stem 20-40 cm tall. Flower tube is generally
longer than the calyx. Sepals are lanceshaped, up to 1 cm long, bracts
awl-shaped. Flower-stalks are up to 2.5 cm long. Calyx, bracts and
flowers are densely yellow-powdery. Leaves are lanceshaped, 10-30 cm
long, sharply toothed, yellow-powdery on the underside, narrowed to a
sheathing leaf-stalk. Lemon-Yellow Primrose is found in the Himalayas, from
Himachal Pradesh to Sikkim, at altitudes of 3600-4500. Flowering:
June-July.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed beyong Tsomgo lake, Sikkim.
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