Primula subalpina

Family: Primulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Sierra primrose is a California native perennial found in the central Sierra Nevada Mountains in moist, often shaded alpine habitats at elevations of 2,100 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces magenta to white flowers with lobes generally 5 to 9 millimeters long. Growing with glabrous stems 10 to 20 centimeters tall, it develops numerous rice-like red bulblets at its roots. Its leaves are 3 to 10 centimeters long with oblanceolate blades that taper to the petiole and remain entire. The plant bears a distinctive reddish coloration except for its leaf blades, with maroon to black anthers nestled in a 2 to 3.5 millimeter filament tube.

Habitat: Moist places, often shaded

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 2100-4000 m

Bioregions: c&amps SNH.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.