I think this is an Androsace - but not what I thought

[robg]

I don't know when I got these, but my memory has always been that I called them Androsace Primuloides, but Wikipedia doesn't include that as a variety, so can someone ID it for me please?  Nor am I finding it in the SRGC seed lists I have.

The follow on question - which in reality is the primary reason for me doing this hunt - is how do I get seed from all these flowers?  You can see it is well established in this trough, but I have never been able to identify seeds.

[Pauli]

A. studiosorum

[DaveM]

Yes, this has been referred to in the past as Androsace primuloides, then changed to A. studiosorum, but I note that in the RBG Kew's 'Plants of the World online', the accepted name should be Androsace sarmentosa subspecies primuloides.

Happy days......!

[robg]

Many thanks, David.  That does resolve the name problem, but for me these will remain as A. primuloides, as that is what I have always known them by.

I am assuming that I got the seed originally from the Seed Exchange very many years ago, but I have never been able to collect seed from these, which have a wonderful capacity to spread - nor have I been able to transplant them.  Can you help on that front at all?