Primula Alpicola

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Primula alpicola, sometimes called the moonlight primrose, is a species of Primula native to southeastern Tibet, where it grows in vast numbers along the Tsangpo valley alongside Primula florindae. Their habitats hardly ever overlap; P. florindae prefers wetter soils close to rivers, giving way to P. alpicola on drier sites. It was first collected in 1926 by Frank Kingdon-Ward, and was described as a variety of Primula microdonta by William Wright Smith, but later raised to a distinct species by Otto Stapf.