Description ²

Primulaceae | shooting star
Nodding flowers with strongly backward-pointing petals in flat-topped umbels.

Habitat: open woods, meadows, and prairies

Flower: 1" long; petals 5, rose, lilac, or white; stamens 5, yellow, protruding.

Leaves: To 6" long, basal, dark green, lanceolate, with reddish bases.

Fruit: Many-seeded capsule opening lengthwise.

Thieret, J. W., Niering, W. A., & Olmstead, N. C. (2001). National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: eastern region (Chanticleer Press ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

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More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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