Primula pamirica - Pamir Primrose

Pamir Primrose is a perennial herb up to 15 cm or more tall. Flowers are pale violet to lilac. Flower tube is about 1.5 times the sepal-cup length; limb about 1 cm broad, petals 5-6 mm long, inverted-heart-shaped, throat yellow. Style is 7-8 mm long in long-styled flowers, slightly protruding. Sepal-cup is 6-7 mm long, tubular-bell-shaped, dense glandular-dotted, green, 5-ribbed, 1/3 cleft; sepals 1.5-2 mm long, ovate-lanceshaped, somewhat pointed, margin glandulose. Flowering stem is 8-15 cm long, fairly stout, 3-7 flowered, hairless. Larger bracts are dense glandular-dotted, broad lanceshaped, 5-9 mm long, margin sparse glandulose, base saccate, and up to 1 mm long, blunt. Flower-stalks are 4-8 mm long, equalling or exceeding the bracts. Leaves, including leaf-stalk, are 2-3.5 x 0.6-1.1 cm, spoon-shaped to elliptic-blunt, entire to obscurely finely toothed, hairless, base gradually tapering in to the leaf-stalk. Capsule tubular-cylindric, exceeding the sepal-cup in length. Pamir Primrose is found in NE Afghanistan to Central Asia and NW Himalaya. Flowering: June-July.