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Primrose
Primula vulgaris
Primula vulgaris, the common primrose is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to western and southern Europe (from the Faroe Islands and Norway south to Portugal, and east to Germany, Ukraine, the Crimea, and the Balkans), northwest Africa (Algeria), and southwest Asia (Turkey east to Iran). The common name is primrose, or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
A Little Hand-book, Being a Fragrant Flower: The Primrose
Böhme, Jakob · 1635 · p.1
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.346
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.931
Garden of Health
1507 · p.171
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.188
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1390
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1391
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.393
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.147
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.318
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.318
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 27)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.19
In the stacks
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Every page naming Primula vulgaris in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56136.