Authors: Duby  

Botanical Description

A relative of Primula farinosa, and close to the Japanese P. modesta, differing by the squat habit, rather dark bluish-green leaves with little farina, margins mostly entire. Flowers usually bluish-lilac (lavender), less commonly rosy-violet or white, mostly about 15 mm diameter, in rounded umbels of one to fourteen on stout stems to 12cm tall. Western and northern Alaska and northern shore of the Canadian arctic to the McKenzie river, not inland, Aleutian and Pribilov Islands and Siberia west to Chuchka in riverine and coastal flats where it is able to survive salinity. Not very amenable to cultivation having very specific requirements.