Primrose Family
Primrose Family - Primulaceae
Common Sowbread Cyclamen hederifoliumNative to the Mediterranean Region, from France to Turkey. Autumn flowering, with only leaves present in spring.
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Dark Loosestrife Lysimachia atropurpurea
Native to the Balkan Peninsula and Turkey.
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Scarlet Pimpernel Lysimachia arvensis
Native to the whole of Europe, much of North and North-east Africa and eastwards to Central Asia and the Himalayan Region. Blue-flowered plants (forma azurea) differ from the true Blue Pimpernel Lysimachia foemina in having broader petals that clearly overlap each other and which have a good number of three-celled marginal hairs with globular tips. Leaves are broad towards the base of the plant, becoming narrower towards the tips of the stems.
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Star-flax Lysimachia linum-stellatum
(Asterolinon linum-stellatum) Native throughout the Mediterranean Region, from the Canary Islands, through the Middle East to Iran. A tiny annual of dry, rocky or gravelly places, roadsides and field margins. Flowers tiny, creamy-white, five-petalled.
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European Brookweed Samolus valerandi
Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to the Himalayas and south through much of Africa. A plant of wet places, easily missed because of its small size. An upright plant with tiny flowers that are just 3-4mm across.
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