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Primula parryi
(Parry’s Primrose) Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Alpine, subalpine. Streamsides, wetlands. Summer. If, high in the mountains, not long after the snow has melted, a startling magenta arrests your eye, you have been caught by Parry’s Primrose. Its color is intensified by the contrast with its own bright green leaves. But Parry’s beauty does have its limits; just lightly touching the plant will bring out a most unpleasant fetid odor. Parry’s Primrose loves to have wet roots so it is found on waterfall ledges, snow-melt areas, streamsides, and other wet areas. It is often scattered in the extensive wetland patches of white flowering Marsh Marigolds. |
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Primula parryi
(Parry’s Primrose) Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Alpine, subalpine. Streamsides, wetlands. Summer. Linnaeus named this genus in 1753; "Primula" is from the Latin for "early spring". In 1862 Asa Gray named the species for Charles Parry, famed collector of western plants, who collected this plant in 1861 on the "head-waters of Clear Creek, and the alpine ridges lying east of 'Middle Park' [Colorado]". (Quotation from Intermountain Flora.) (More biographical information about Parry). |
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Primula parryi (Parry’s Primrose) Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Alpine, subalpine. Streamsides, wetlands. Summer. One to two inch tall Primula parryi appear in late July at 12,000 feet just at the edge of the last snow banks. Most of these plants will not flower, nor will they survive the winter. |
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Primula parryi
(Parry’s Primrose) Primulaceae (Primrose Family) Alpine, subalpine. Streamsides, wetlands. Summer. Gone to seed. |
Range map © John Kartesz,
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Range map for Primula parryi |