help | home

Herbarium specimen: Primula scotica

Taxon:Primulaceae: Primula scotica Hook. ("Scottish Primrose")
Collected by:Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:1/7/1946
Locality:Great Britain, VC109 Caithness, Dunnet, ND221713, Damp grassy hollows in sand dunes Dunnet links
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Primula scotica herbarium specimen from Dunnet, VC109 Caithness in 1946 by Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges.Primula scotica herbarium specimen from Dunnet, VC109 Caithness in 1946 by Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges.
collector's number:1347
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
Tags:comital no: 3
notes:Similar to P. farinosa but flowers a deep mauve, stem never so long calyx more swollen [and] teeth shorter.
Filing note:Portulaceae / Primulaceae

Show in Google Earth

This sheet was documented by volunteers from the herbarium@home project.

Log-in to edit this specimen or crop examples of handwriting.

Documented by hallucigenia on 7th August 2011.

Checked by johned

herbaria@home > specimen search