Authors: Royle
A familiar Oreophlomis species, one of the best garden primulas.Leaves deciduous, oblong, originally red, then pale green, smooth and glabrous, developing after flowering and eventually extending to 20cm long by 4cm wide. Flowers bright rose-red with a small yellow eye, l-2cm across, in umbels of four to twelve on stems 3-10cm high when flowering but trebling this in seed. Kashmir to Afghanistan, at 3000-3500m, bogs, wet meadows, snow-melt. A number of forms are grown with larger or deeper coloured flowers, there is also a paler pink form. Best grown in a very wet place, excellent for pond margins.
