Wavy-edged primrose
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The wavy-edged primrose ( Primula marginata ) is a species of plant that belongs to the genus of primroses ( Primula ).
description
The wavy-edged primrose grows as a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 5 to 12 centimeters. It has a floury stalk . The leaves , arranged in a basal rosette, are often floury and have an obovate to elliptical leaf blade with a bluntly toothed, white-floury leaf margin.
The flowering period extends from May to July. Three to 15 flowers are grouped together in a golden inflorescence . The flower stalk is 3 to 20 millimeters long. The fragrant, hermaphrodite flower is radial symmetry and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The membranous bracts are broad-egg-shaped with a length of up to 10 millimeters. The 2 to 6 millimeter long, floury powdered calyx has egg-shaped and short calyx teeth. The pink-purple to blue-purple crown has a diameter of up to 20 millimeters and has slightly edged corolla lobes, as well as a white floury ring on the throat. The corolla tube is about three times as long as the chalice.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 52, 63, 64, 125 or 126.
Occurrence
The Primula marginata is in the southwestern Alps in Italy and France endemic . Here it occurs from montane to alpine at altitudes of 500 to 2600 meters in crevices, on limestone and calcareous slate.
literature
- Gunter Steinbach (Ed.): Alpine flowers (Steinbach's natural guide). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Primula marginata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
