710101 Primula elatior subsp. elatior (L.) Hill
Distribution
Northern Fennoscandia: Persistent (Adventive)
Shrub Tundra: Persistent (Adventive)
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Persistent (Adventive)
2n=
22 (2x). - Europe. - Numerous reports.
Geography: European: (NOR*).
Notes: Subspecies elatior is a widespread and hardy garden ornamental and extensively naturalized in northern Norway, coloring the lawns yellow in many towns and villages in May. The northernmost fully escaped plants are from three localities in the Borderline Arctic at Havøysund in Måsøy, Kjøllefjord in Lebesby, and in Vadsø but it might occur as escaped even farther north (botanists are rarely around in these districts in May when it flowers).
The Caucasian and southern Siberian subsp. pallasii (Lehm.) W.W. Sm. & Forrest, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 16: 42 (1928), has also been cultivated in northern Norway for at least the last 30 years, is efficiently escaping, and may already be present in or close to the Arctic.
Higher Taxa
- Primula [7101,genus]