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Primula frenchii
Primula frenchii, French's shootingstar, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It is native to the central and southern United States, in southern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Alabama. It grows in moist, shady areas such as ledges near streams and under sandstone cliffs.
It was originally described as Dodecatheon meadia var. frenchii Vasey in 1891, elevated to species in 1932, then moved to the genus Primula in 2007. The name is a after George Hazen French.
Primula tetrandra · Primula clevelandii · Primula latiloba · Primula frigida · Primula hendersonii · Primula meadia · Primula poetica · Primula fragrans · Tundra Shootingstar · Bonneville Shootingstar · Sierrra shootingstar · Dark Throat Shootingstar
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Primula frenchii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
