Primula deorum


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Primula deorum
Primula deorum (also known as Rila Primrose, Rila Cowslip or God's Cowslip) is a flowering dicot plant of the genus Primula in the Primulaceae family. This alpine plant is endemic to roughly 63 km2 above the tree-line (especially around 2200 metres) in the Rila mountains in Bulgaria, where it grows in small groups in acid, boggy soil near streams and pools and in boggy soil. Its elongate green leaves form rosettes. The blooms are red-purple, borne in asymmetrical umbels high above the leaves. This plant has survived the last glacial period as a relict organism.

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