Primrose Trivia | 30 facts about the flower

The primrose is a beautiful flower, that blooms in Spring, and can be found either in the wild nature or in planted in a garden.

Let’s find out more about it!

1. Primula vulgaris is the scienftific name of primrose.
2. The common primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.
3. It is native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and parts of southwest Asia^.
4. The common name is primrose, or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses.
5. None of these are closely related to the evening primroses (genus Oenothera).
6. There are about 500 to 600 species of primroses.
7. Primroses chiefly occurring in the Northern Hemisphere in cool or mountainous regions.
8. Most are perennial though some species are annuals.
9. Most species grow 25 to 50 centimeters (10 to 20 inches) tall.
10. This rule doesn’t apply every time, because sometimes the primroses are as short as 5 centimeters (2 inches) and others as tall as 1.2 meters (4 feet).
11. Primroses are mostly herbaceous.
12. They have no woody stem.
13. The stalked leaves may be long and narrow or roundish and are crowded together.
14. On the lower side the midrib is often prominent.
15. The stalked flowers may be solitary, as in the common primrose (P. vulgaris), or more usually borne in loose umbels.
16. The flowers have five petals and may be red, pink, purple, blue, white, or yellow. Some species and varieties also bear bi-colored flowers.
17. Many species are cultivated for their attractive flowers.
18. If a primrose begins as an ovary and inside it are the future seeds.
19. The main meanings of primrose flower are: youth, love, birth.
20. As women bring new lives to this world, primrose flower also stands for women and their beauty.
21. As primrose flower blooms in the early spring.
22. The flowers of some primroses, especially Primula vulgaris, are edible. They can be eaten raw in salads or as an edible garnish.
23. Its taste mostly reminds you of lettuce.
24. When ingested, primrose can cause animals some medical problems. It’s a poisonous plant but only to animals.
25. In traditional herbal medicine, cowslip wine, made from Primula veris, was used as a sedative.
26. The Queen’s primrose wreath bore a note saying “his favourite flower” but it has never been clear whether she meant Disraeli’s favourite flower or her late husband Prince Albert’s.
27. Every year on April 19 primroses are placed by Disraeli’s statue outside Westminster Abbey.
28. In 1883 the political organisation the Primrose League was founded in 1883 in memory of Disraeli.
29. According to an old English superstition a child who ate a Primrose might see a fairy.
30. In Germany it was thought that the first girl to find a primrose at Easter would marry that year.