DARK THROATED SHOOTING STAR
GENESIS NAME: Primula pauciflora
DISTRIBUTION: From Alaska to Mexico and Pennsylvania & Utah
SEASON: May thru June
MEDICAL USE: There are no known medicinal uses for the plant.
POISONOUS: Because this information is unknown, this species should be considered poisonous. In early spring when green forage is scarce, elk and deer will eat the Shooting Star.
EDIBILITY: Edible and medicinal value: The roots and leaves of another species of Shooting Star may be eaten or boiled.
FEATURES: Common shooting star blooms in mid-spring from May to June. The plant forms rosettes of long narrow leaves and singular slender stems. The flowers hang in umbels from the stems and are white to bright pink. ... These dangle down from the center and may be a pale yellow, pink, or even soft purple color.
LEAVES: Shooting Star is a native North American wildflower that forms a low rosette of rounded leaves. It the spring long red or green stems emerge with several unusual blooms in a shooting star-like appearance. They grow best in moist, humusy well-drained soil in part shade.
FRUITS:
Common shooting star blooms in mid-spring from May to June. The plant forms rosettes of long narrow leaves and singular slender stems. The flowers hang in umbels from the stems and are white to bright pink. ... These dangle down from the center and may be a pale yellow, pink, or even soft purple color.
DISTRIBUTION: From Alaska to Mexico and Pennsylvania & Utah
SEASON: May thru June
MEDICAL USE: There are no known medicinal uses for the plant.
POISONOUS: Because this information is unknown, this species should be considered poisonous. In early spring when green forage is scarce, elk and deer will eat the Shooting Star.
EDIBILITY: Edible and medicinal value: The roots and leaves of another species of Shooting Star may be eaten or boiled.
FEATURES: Common shooting star blooms in mid-spring from May to June. The plant forms rosettes of long narrow leaves and singular slender stems. The flowers hang in umbels from the stems and are white to bright pink. ... These dangle down from the center and may be a pale yellow, pink, or even soft purple color.
LEAVES: Shooting Star is a native North American wildflower that forms a low rosette of rounded leaves. It the spring long red or green stems emerge with several unusual blooms in a shooting star-like appearance. They grow best in moist, humusy well-drained soil in part shade.
FRUITS:
Common shooting star blooms in mid-spring from May to June. The plant forms rosettes of long narrow leaves and singular slender stems. The flowers hang in umbels from the stems and are white to bright pink. ... These dangle down from the center and may be a pale yellow, pink, or even soft purple color.
DESCRIPTION:
Dark-throat shooting star is an attractive perennial which should be fairly easy to grow in the garden meadow or rock garden. The erect stem rises 5-40 cm from a basal rosette of pale green, oblong to spoon-shaped leaves from 3-20 cm long. The leaves taper to winged petioles. The herbage of the leaves and stems is usually smooth-surfaced.
The 3-12 flowers have 5 floral parts. The corolla is 15-25 mm across with deep magenta to lavender petals 1-2 cm long and reflexed sharply backwards.. The tube at the base of the petals is white or yellow-ringed with a thin, wavy reddish-purple ring at the very base. The filaments are united to form a tube of yellow or purple anthers projecting to 1 cm from the mouth of the corolla tube. The anther connectives are smooth and and the stigma is not enlarged at the end of the style.
The low-growing shooting stars are perennial herbs with wavy-margined leaves growing in a rosette. The flowers, which are commonly reddish, purple, lilac, pink, or white, grow in a small cluster at the end of a leafless stalk (scape). The five lobes of the corolla (the structure formed by the petals) are turned backward, and the flowers point downward. The flowers are “buzz pollinated,” meaning that they require a certain frequency of vibration from bees in order to release their pollen.
The 3-12 flowers have 5 floral parts. The corolla is 15-25 mm across with deep magenta to lavender petals 1-2 cm long and reflexed sharply backwards.. The tube at the base of the petals is white or yellow-ringed with a thin, wavy reddish-purple ring at the very base. The filaments are united to form a tube of yellow or purple anthers projecting to 1 cm from the mouth of the corolla tube. The anther connectives are smooth and and the stigma is not enlarged at the end of the style.
The low-growing shooting stars are perennial herbs with wavy-margined leaves growing in a rosette. The flowers, which are commonly reddish, purple, lilac, pink, or white, grow in a small cluster at the end of a leafless stalk (scape). The five lobes of the corolla (the structure formed by the petals) are turned backward, and the flowers point downward. The flowers are “buzz pollinated,” meaning that they require a certain frequency of vibration from bees in order to release their pollen.