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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ChrisB on April 05, 2011, 10:03:40 AM

Title: Yellow flowered cushion plant
Post by: ChrisB on April 05, 2011, 10:03:40 AM

Hi, I got this long ago, and think the label is buried somewhere under the mound.  I've no idea what it is now.  It was covered in yellow flowers last year and has come through the winter with flying colours again.  It has five petals so I'm wondering if it might be an androsace?

Title: Re: Yellow flowered cushion plant
Post by: David Shaw on April 05, 2011, 10:45:17 AM

Hi Chris, your plant is Vitalliana primuliflora (according to Plantfinder - I always called it V. primuloides). Ours is just coming into flower now.

Title: Re: Yellow flowered cushion plant
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 05, 2011, 09:35:53 PM

Used to be Douglasia vitaliana then Androsace vitaliana (sometimes as var praetutiana) and now, as David says, Vitaliana, primuloides, then primuliflora. Poor thing must be hopelessly confused, never mind the grower. ::)

Title: Re: Yellow flowered cushion plant
Post by: ChrisB on April 05, 2011, 09:58:30 PM

I thought it must be primulaceae, so I was partly right.  Anyway, problem solved and I'm happy...