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51.) PRIMULACEAE - Primrose family

  • Primula vulgaris Huds. (Primrose) / Woodland
  • Primula vulgaris x P. veris = P. x polyantha Mill. (False Oxlip - NBN) /- General
  • Primula veris L. (Cowslip) / Grassland
  • Hottonia palustris L. (Water-violet) /- Wetland
  • Lysimachia vulgaris L. (Yellow Loosestrife) - Wetland
  • Lysimachia thyrsiflora L. (Tufted Loosestrife) - spelt wrong in old flora as 'L. thrysiflora' 1782 Wetland
  • Lysimachia punctata L. (Dotted Loosestrife) /- General
  • Lysimachia nummularia L. (Creeping-Jenny) / Wetland
  • Lysimachia maritima (L.) Galasso, Banfi & Soldano (Stace) Glaux maritima L. (NBN) (Sea-milkwort) / Coasts
  • Lysimachia minima (L.) U. Manns & Anderb. (Stace) Centunculus minimus L. (NBN) Anagallis minima (L.) E.H.L. Krause (old name) (Chaffweed) 1915 General
  • Lysimachia tenella L. (Stace) Anagallis tenella (L.) L. (NBN) (Bog Pimpernel) / Wetland
  • Lysimachia nemorum L. (Yellow Pimpernel) / Woodland
  • Lysimachia arvensis (L.) U. Manns & Anderb. (Stace) Anagallis arvensis L. ssp. arvensis (NBN) (Scarlet Pimpernel) / Stace does not mention sspp. NBN does - check General
  • Lysimachia foemina (Mill.) U. Manns & Anderb. (Stace) Anagallis arvensis L. ssp. foemina (Mill.) Schinz & Thell. (NBN) (Blue Pimpernel) 1961 General
  • Cyclamen hederifolium Aiton (Sowbread) / Woodland
  • Cyclamen repandum Sibth. & Sm. (Spring Sowbread) /- Woodland
  • Samolus valerandi L. (Brookweed) /- Wetland

Species to add:

  • Androsace maxima L. ssp. maxima (Annual Androsace - GBIF, Greater Rock-jasmine - iNaturalist, Greater Fairy Candelabra?) - [Brist. Fl., Sandwith, 1932]
  • Cyclamen coum Mill. (Eastern Sowbread)

Plants of P. x polyantha with red flowers were found at High Barrow Hill (Twerton Roundhill), Bath in 2023 by R.D. Randall BRLSI