Androsace sarmentosa subsp. primuloides

Primrose Rock Jasmine is quite similar to Common Rock Jasmine, but differs from it in having leaves with a narrow stalks, and broader bracts. Plants form long runners, up to 16 x 0.15 cm, dark or reddish-brown. Flowers pink to rose-pink. Petals are unequal, 3-4 mm long, obovate-wedge-shaped; tube urn-shaped, limb 7.5-9 mm broad; throat constricted, barely annulate. Sepal-cup 3-3.5 mm long, broad bell-shaped, hairy and glandulose, 1/3- 1/2 divided; sepals 1.5 mm long, wedge-shaped, blunt, hairy, fringed with hairs. Flowering stem is 4.5-15 cm long, 10-22-flowered, hairy and sparse glandular. Bracts are unequal, 6-13 x 2-3 mm, lanceshaped or broadly so, hairy and sparse glandulose. Flower-stalks are 7-20 mm long, exceeding the bracts. Leaves are borne in dense rosettes 2-3 cm broad, dimorphic; outer ones smaller, 6-16 x 2.5-4 mm, inverted-lanceshaped, hairy, silky when young; inner leaves larger, 20-68 x 4-5 mm, elliptic-lanceshaped, nearly stalkless, hairy, base of blade narrowed. Capsules are about 3 mm broad, slightly exceeding the sepal-cup. Primrose Rock Jasmine is found in Kashmir, less common in Ladakh and Baltistan, and eastward to Kumaon and Nepal, at altitudes of 2600-4500 m. Flowering: July-August.