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Primula auricula, often known as auricula, mountain cowslip or bear's ear (from the shape of its leaves), is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, that grows on basic rocks in the mountain ranges of central Europe, including the western Alps, Jura Mountains, the Vosges, the Black Forest and the Tatra Mountains.
Primula (/ ˈ p r ɪ m j ʊ l ə /) [2] is a genus of herbaceous [3] flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They include the primrose ( P. vulgaris ), a familiar wildflower of banks and verges. Other common species are P. auricula (auricula), P. veris (cowslip), and P. elatior (oxlip).
The following species in the flowering plant genus Primula, often called primroses and cowslips, are accepted by Plants of the World Online. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Over 25 books have been written on the genus. [ 3 ]
The Primulaceae are named for their nominative and type genus, Primula. Linnaeus used this name to reflect its place among the first flowers of spring, given the primrose's vernacular Latin name of primula veris (lit. ' little first of spring '), primula (feminine diminutive primus, first + veris (genitive ver, spring). [11]
Primula minima, the fairy primrose (a name it shares with Primula malacoides), is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to the eastern Alps, Carpathians, and Balkan mountain ranges. [1] Although it is a high-elevation species, it relies more than expected on seed dispersal than clonal propagation. [2]
This is a category for those plants that grow predominantly above the tree line, in any of the world's mountain ranges (that is, not only the Alps).Plants of the subalpine zone (between the edge of closed forestry and the last isolated trees) may be included, but plants of montane forests should not.